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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As children, Viorst thinks we test reality with what?
(a) Wishful thinking.
(b) Our pretend play.
(c) Our actions.
(d) Daydreaming.

2. Some primitive tribes have allowed their men to express what sort of envy?
(a) Creative envy.
(b) Motherhood envy.
(c) Womb envy.
(d) Breast envy.

3. According to Viorst, in middle age we inspire far less ________ than we do ___________.
(a) Lust; respect.
(b) Admiration; annoyance.
(c) Hatred; love.
(d) Respect; pity.

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

5. Who said, "To be a man, a woman, an adult, is to accept responsibility"?
(a) Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(b) Sigmund Freud
(c) Victor Hugo
(d) Jean Valjean

Short Answer Questions

1. How is it believed that infants perceive their needs in relation to their mother?

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

3. According to Viorst, siblings destroy our dream of what?

4. Levinson calls a mid-life crisis what?

5. Drugs, communing with nature, religious experiences, and meditation are all ways in which people seek to what?

(see the answer key)

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