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

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

3. 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?
(a) Lev Vygotsky.
(b) Erik Erikson.
(c) Jean Piaget.
(d) Alfred Adler.

4. Which famous author wrote this about the loss of his cherished wife: "The first plunge of the knife into the flesh is felt again and again"?
(a) Charles Dickens.
(b) J.R.R. Tolkien.
(c) Victor Hugo.
(d) C.S. Lewis.

5. Intimate male-female relationships are rare because of what?
(a) The adultery factor.
(b) Women would just rather talk to other women.
(c) Socially unacceptable norms.
(d) The sexual tension.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 16, Viorst quotes which psychologist who wrote the book Loss?

2. How does the author feel we can move past re-creating what has already happened?

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

4. Viorst feels our sexual nature comes from where?

5. When does it become clear to the child that his needs are different than his mother's?

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