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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Winnicott argues that denying _____ prevents "the developing child from facing and learning to tolerate" this emotion in themselves.
(a) Pride.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Deceit.
(d) Anger.

2. How does the author feel we can move past re-creating what has already happened?
(a) Climb into a time machine and go back.
(b) Mourn the past and move on.
(c) Talk to the people in our past.
(d) Ignore the past and move on.

3. How is it believed that infants perceive their needs in relation to their mother?
(a) Their needs are the same as their mother's.
(b) Their needs are less than their mother's.
(c) Their needs are greater than their mother's.
(d) Their needs are different than their mother's.

4. According to Viorst, which two abilities at which boys excel are the only ones based in scientific fact?
(a) Math and science.
(b) Sports and hunting.
(c) Verbal and scientific.
(d) Aggression and visual spatial ability.

5. Seeing our own feelings as those of the new baby's is known as what?
(a) Projection.
(b) Entanglement of self.
(c) Yours and mine syndrome.
(d) Confusion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two feelings battle each other at every stage of development?

2. What does the author state that extended separation from a mother can cause a child?

3. What Christmas gift caused Brooke Hayward so much anguish when asked if her little sister could play with it?

4. According to Chapter 7, what destroys the innocence of the family bond?

5. Viorst states that what kind of parents are sexually attracted to their child?

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