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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Art Buchwald, what are "the three worst words in the language"?
(a) Lonely, stray, hospital.
(b) Jewish, urchin, institution.
(c) Hebrew, orphan, asylum.
(d) Isolated, hopeless, angry.

2. When a mother rejects a child's need for dependence and pushes them out of the nest too soon, what can happen?
(a) We scream, or cry, or get angry.
(b) We grow amazingly strong wings.
(c) We crash to the ground.
(d) We adapt, or crumple, or compromise.

3. Some primitive tribes have allowed their men to express what sort of envy?
(a) Womb envy.
(b) Breast envy.
(c) Creative envy.
(d) Motherhood envy.

4. Chapter 1 concludes by stating that the yearning to restore the bliss of mother-child oneness is _____________________.
(a) Worse when we are sick or injured.
(b) Satisfied upon entry into adulthood.
(c) Never relinquished.
(d) Only quenched when we find another meaningful relationship.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By consolidating our own "inner law enforcer or superego," we can resolve what in a healthy way?

3. What are the ingrained patterns repeated in adulthood due to childhood experiences called?

4. According to psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, immature love follows what principle?

5. "Our conscience is our _____________ installed in our mind."

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