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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who said, "To be a man, a woman, an adult, is to accept responsibility"?
(a) Sigmund Freud
(b) Victor Hugo
(c) Jean Valjean
(d) Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

3. What happens when children see their mothers as all good or all bad?
(a) They form a very close relationship with their fathers.
(b) They compare everyone they meet to their mothers.
(c) They split from relationships their whole life because they think in terms of black and white.
(d) They shun perfect and evil people alike, looking for complete mediocrity in the perfect mate.

4. Name the experimental psychologist who convinced people it was acceptable to continue shocking subjects despite their response to pain.
(a) B.F. Skinner.
(b) Jean Piaget.
(c) Stanley Milgram.
(d) Richard Paredes.

5. According to Viorst, what are we all striving to be?
(a) Someone who makes our mother proud.
(b) A narcissist.
(c) A separate self.
(d) A well-adjusted adult.

Short Answer Questions

1. Viorst feels our sexual nature comes from where?

2. According to Chapter 8, what does modern science say that all mammals start out as?

3. What was the name of the "weird little novel" mentioned by Viorst in Chapter 8?

4. Subliminal messages of "Mommy and I are one," have proven to result in what?

5. When we allow some person or group to stand in place of our own conscience, this leads to what?

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