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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the girl's club that Viorst's neighbor Amy belonged to?
(a) The Rainbow Fleet.
(b) Girls Rule.
(c) No Boys Allowed.
(d) Rainbows and Unicorns.

2. Drugs, communing with nature, religious experiences, and meditation are all ways in which people seek to what?
(a) Bridge the loss of oneness with our mother.
(b) Reach a higher level of awareness.
(c) Fit in and find acceptance with others.
(d) Escape from the stress of everyday life.

3. According to psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, immature love follows what principle?
(a) I hate you because I love you.
(b) I need you because I love you.
(c) I love you because I need you.
(d) I am loved because I love.

4. In Chapter 8, the author discusses another "necessary loss." Which one is it?
(a) The loss of the exclusive love of our mother.
(b) That we must let go in order to love.
(c) The limitations imposed on us due to our being male or female.
(d) The loss of our heterosexuality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following, according to the author, may be an inappropriate way to deal with the grieving of childhood?

2. Repression, reaction formation, isolation, and denial are all mechanisms of defense against what?

3. Viorst states, "All of us, to some degree, are _______________."

4. According to Viorst, in what way do we primarily form our self-identity?

5. According to the author, absence makes the heart grow _____________.

(see the answer key)

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