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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two feelings battle each other at every stage of development?
(a) Our desire to learn versus our desire to have fun.
(b) Our desire to please our mother versus our desire to please ourselves.
(c) Our desire for freedom versus our desire for protection.
(d) Our desire for love versus our desire to be loved.

2. What sort of thing did Selena's children no longer want her to do when they separated?
(a) Leave a note on their dresser.
(b) Set out their clothes.
(c) Hire a babysitter.
(d) Make a Travel Book.

3. What is one of the necessary losses discussed in Chapter 3?
(a) To give up on the idea that we are independent beings.
(b) To give up our need for control.
(c) To give up on being one with our mother.
(d) To give up the many identities we try out.

4. According to Freud, when does the age of latency occur?
(a) 3-5 years old.
(b) 7-10 years old.
(c) 18-21 years old.
(d) 13-18 years old.

5. "Reality testing" means what?
(a) That we try different roles in order to become an adult.
(b) That wishing doesn't make it so.
(c) That we should just stay with our parents.
(d) That we go to college and experiment.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Viorst, what are we all striving to be?

2. Who created the character Alexander Portnoy?

3. According to Viorst, we not only try to re-live the good experiences from our past, but also seek to re-create the bad ones in an effort to do what?

4. Which well-known psychologist noted that if a child can fight a sibling and win, he becomes a fighter. However, if he is not allowed to win, he will often not compete later in life?

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

(see the answer key)

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