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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which two psychologists believe that the contacts between infant and mother produce a "deep libidinal pleasure"?
(a) Skinner and Sullivan.
(b) Piaget and Spock.
(c) Freud and Erikson.
(d) Jung and Adler.

2. According to Chapter 8, what does modern science say that all mammals start out as?
(a) Eggs.
(b) Female.
(c) Male.
(d) Embryos.

3. Viorst states that what kind of parents are sexually attracted to their child?
(a) Same-sex parents.
(b) Normal parents.
(c) Adoptive parents.
(d) Degenerate parents.

4. When we allow some person or group to stand in place of our own conscience, this leads to what?
(a) Indiscriminate guilt.
(b) Unconscious guilt.
(c) Deficient guilt.
(d) Dependent guilt.

5. What is one of the necessary losses discussed in Chapter 3?
(a) To give up on being one with our mother.
(b) To give up the many identities we try out.
(c) To give up our need for control.
(d) To give up on the idea that we are independent beings.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The following verse is from what poem? "And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns, About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home, In the sun that is young once only, Time let me play and be..."

3. According to Viorst, grown-up love must begin with what?

4. At what age do we develop the superego?

5. At the end of Chapter 8, Margaret Mead uses what type of profession in her analogy about accepting what we were born with?

(see the answer key)

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