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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) In an effort to torture ourselves.
(b) In an effort to correct them.
(c) In an effort to rehearse for the future.
(d) In an effort to assess how we performed.

2. According to the book, the conscious daydreams that drift through our minds bring hints to us of what kind of world?
(a) A rogue, subterranean world.
(b) A just world.
(c) A magical, beautiful world.
(d) A perfect world.

3. In the study discussed in Chapter 8, how many school children were asked how their lives would be different if they woke up the next morning as the opposite sex?
(a) 50.
(b) 982.
(c) 300.
(d) 2,000.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As a result of unconscious guilt, criminals sometimes do what?

2. In the anecdote about the holy man painting a portrait for a king, who ends up being revealed in the painting?

3. The idea that we are all in love with the parent of the opposite sex is known as what?

4. Name the experimental psychologist who convinced people it was acceptable to continue shocking subjects despite their response to pain.

5. Escaping to an earlier stage of development in an effort to deal with socially unacceptable feelings toward a new sibling is called what?

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