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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) Anger.
(b) Pride.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Deceit.

2. According to Viorst, siblings destroy our dream of what?
(a) Absolute love.
(b) Living an idyllic life.
(c) Being our mother's favorite.
(d) Being best friends with our sibling.

3. How does Viorst purport that we form an identification of "I"?
(a) We backpack through Europe and discover ourselves.
(b) We find a good job and experience success.
(c) We begin to view ourselves as an independent being over a lifetime.
(d) We move away to college and choose our own major.

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

5. Which person coined the phrase Cinderella Complex?
(a) Colette Dowling.
(b) Sigmund Freud.
(c) Colleen Rodman.
(d) Judith Viorst.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the philosopher who said, "Man is the being who is capable of becoming guilty and is capable of illuminating his guilt"?

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

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

4. Viorst feels that there is a always a grain of what in our love relationships?

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

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