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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following, according to the author, may be an inappropriate way to deal with the grieving of childhood?
(a) Sex.
(b) Driving recklessly.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Breaking the rules.

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

3. Who wrote the book, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret?
(a) J.K. Rowling
(b) Madeleine L'Engle
(c) Judy Blume
(d) Beverly Cleary

4. Who created the character Alexander Portnoy?
(a) Nathaniel Hawthorne.
(b) Philip Roth.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) James Joyce.

5. What Christmas gift caused Brooke Hayward so much anguish when asked if her little sister could play with it?
(a) A pair of roller skates.
(b) A dollhouse.
(c) A bike.
(d) A set of artist's paints.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the necessary losses discussed in Chapter 3?

2. Why does Viorst say we "need the controls provided by guilt"?

3. When does it become clear to the child that his needs are different than his mother's?

4. Chapter 3 addresses how the "Private I" is the person who lives underneath the facade that is created in order to ___________ those around them.

5. According to the author, what do babies need?

(see the answer key)

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