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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the married woman with four children, mentioned in Chapter 12, who formed a non-sexual friendship with another man?
(a) Lucy.
(b) Dorothy.
(c) Elizabeth.
(d) Evelyn.

2. Viorst feels that there is a always a grain of what in our love relationships?
(a) A grain of spite.
(b) A grain of jealousy.
(c) A grain of insecurity.
(d) A grain of hatred.

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

4. According to Chapter 8, what does modern science say that all mammals start out as?
(a) Male.
(b) Female.
(c) Eggs.
(d) Embryos.

5. Viorst feels our sexual nature comes from where?
(a) It is inborn and shaped by our environment.
(b) It comes from our DNA.
(c) It is formed in our mind.
(d) It comes from the messages around us.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Viorst, which two abilities at which boys excel are the only ones based in scientific fact?

2. As children, Viorst thinks we test reality with what?

3. When the child decides to replace the hostility towards the new sibling with some other activity, it is referred to as what?

4. Parents have trouble seeing their children as what?

5. Who else, besides mothers, links separation and danger?

(see the answer key)

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