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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are the ingrained patterns repeated in adulthood due to childhood experiences called?
(a) Familiarity complex.
(b) Repetition compulsion.
(c) Bad habits.
(d) Revisiting the past.

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

4. Who said, "In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate."
(a) Sigmund Freud
(b) Erich Fromm
(c) Ingrid Bergman
(d) Harriet Lerner

5. According to Chapter 11, we sometimes fear that our fantasies can do what?
(a) Make us mean.
(b) Change us.
(c) Reveal the sick, depraved person we really are.
(d) Have the power to control reality.

Short Answer Questions

1. Henry David Thoreau's little isolated cabin was how far from his mother's house?

2. What is the name of the personality that evolves when a child cannot trust their own feelings and takes on the personality traits of others?

3. What does the father in the poem referenced in Chapter 14 finally conclude?

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

5. 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..."

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