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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Chapter 7, girls have to give up more of what than boys in outgrowing their Oedipus complex?
(a) More people.
(b) More sex.
(c) More fears.
(d) More dreams.

3. According to Chapter 9, how do we eventually resolve the Oedipus complex?
(a) Through punishment and shame.
(b) Through guilt.
(c) By becoming adults.
(d) Through our conscience.

4. There are _______ unanswered questions about the innate differences between the sexes.
(a) Flimsy.
(b) Many.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Few.

5. Viorst feels that only through _____________ can "our loss be transcended."
(a) Grief.
(b) Love.
(c) Learning.
(d) Life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the title of Delia Ephron's book about adolescent angst referenced in Chapter 10?

2. The Cinderella Complex says that women are programmed for what?

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

4. While in the hospital, a little boy who was set on fire by his mother is crying for whom?

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

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