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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first sentence of Chapter 1 states that, "Life begins with _______."
(a) Crying.
(b) Birth.
(c) Love.
(d) Loss.

2. Drugs, communing with nature, religious experiences, and meditation are all ways in which people seek to what?
(a) Reach a higher level of awareness.
(b) Bridge the loss of oneness with our mother.
(c) Escape from the stress of everyday life.
(d) Fit in and find acceptance with others.

3. How does Viorst describe the first loss we experience as humans?
(a) First separation.
(b) New beginning.
(c) Original loss.
(d) Launch of independence.

4. Levinson calls a mid-life crisis what?
(a) Forty and Fabulous.
(b) Mid-life Transition.
(c) A questioning of everything.
(d) Middle Age Panic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Sibling rivalry tends to do what as we get older?

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

3. Even as adults, according to the author, we still view our mothers as what?

4. The following verse is from what poem? "And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns, About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home, In the sun that is young once only, Time let me play and be..."

5. What is the first phase of mourning discussed in Chapter 16?

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