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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 5 states that even an average mother is perceived by a child as _____________.
(a) Better than average.
(b) Stern.
(c) Perfect.
(d) Inadequate.

2. Which two psychologists believe that the contacts between infant and mother produce a "deep libidinal pleasure"?
(a) Skinner and Sullivan.
(b) Piaget and Spock.
(c) Jung and Adler.
(d) Freud and Erikson.

3. According to Viorst, what are we all striving to be?
(a) A separate self.
(b) A narcissist.
(c) A well-adjusted adult.
(d) Someone who makes our mother proud.

4. According to Chapter 13, there can be no human love without what?
(a) A caring parental relationship.
(b) Fear.
(c) Ambivalence.
(d) Passion and romance.

5. Which philosopher does Viorst quote in Chapter 14?
(a) Leo Tolstoy
(b) Soren Kierkegaard
(c) Friedrich Nietzsche
(d) Karl Marx

Short Answer Questions

1. Which famous family does Viorst mention in Chapter 15?

2. Madame Bovary uses what metaphor to describe marriage?

3. According to Chapter 9, how do we eventually resolve the Oedipus complex?

4. After fantasizing about her mother having a fatal heart attack, a woman drove up to her mother's apartment building to find what?

5. According to Lillian Rubin, the sexual difference between men and women leads to what in a marriage relationship?

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