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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Viorst think some people fear success?
(a) They fear being more successful than the opposite sex parent.
(b) They fear the responsibility that comes with success.
(c) They fear retaliation from siblings.
(d) They fear punishment from the rival parent.

2. According to Chapter 7, what destroys the innocence of the family bond?
(a) Divorce.
(b) Parents who argue.
(c) Incest.
(d) Physical abuse.

3. What famous author's memoir entitled Speak, Memory does Viorst reference at the end of Chapter 14?
(a) Vladimir Nabokov
(b) Leo Tolstoy
(c) James Joyce
(d) Frank McCourt

4. Sigmund Freud once said, "When you meet a human being, the first distinction you make is ______________?"
(a) Crazy or sane.
(b) Old or young.
(c) Smart or stupid.
(d) Male or female.

5. What is composed of our noblest goals?
(a) Our superego.
(b) Our ego ideal.
(c) Our id.
(d) Our ego.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said, "In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate."

2. What was the name of the married woman with four children, mentioned in Chapter 12, who formed a non-sexual friendship with another man?

3. In Chapter 14, Viorst lists what about her hometown?

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

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