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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 girl's club that Viorst's neighbor Amy belonged to?
(a) No Boys Allowed.
(b) Rainbows and Unicorns.
(c) The Rainbow Fleet.
(d) Girls Rule.

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

3. What was the name of the "weird little novel" mentioned by Viorst in Chapter 8?
(a) The Men's Club.
(b) Confederacy of Dunces.
(c) The Moviegoer.
(d) The Catcher in the Rye.

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

5. In the anecdote about the holy man painting a portrait for a king, who ends up being revealed in the painting?
(a) The king.
(b) The holy man.
(c) The king's wife.
(d) The king's daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 11, what is built of imperfect connections?

2. What happens when children see their mothers as all good or all bad?

3. How does Viorst purport that we form an identification of "I"?

4. Which fictional character mentioned in the book chooses not to become a man, and stay as a boy forever?

5. Why does Viorst think some people fear success?

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