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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Viorst's poem, "I bring the children one more glass of water," is about what?
(a) A dream of helping children find clean water.
(b) The anxieties of going to sleep as a child.
(c) Being an overworked mother.
(d) Sex not being so sexy anymore.

2. According to Chapter 14, parents suffer from the one of the following in a similar fashion to children.
(a) Insecurity about themselves.
(b) Fear of abandonment.
(c) Separation anxiety.
(d) Oedipus complex.

3. According to Viorst, "A new dream will arise when we begin to have our babies..." What is it?
(a) The dream of them moving out and going to college.
(b) The dream of them becoming successful.
(c) The dream of creating an amazing and perfect human.
(d) The dream of keeping them safe from harm.

4. The following headline ran in what paper? "HER OUTSIDE PREOCCUPATION CAN LEAVE HIM ISOLATED AT TIME OF MORE LEISURE"
(a) The Washington Post.
(b) The Wall Street Journal.
(c) The Chicago Tribune.
(d) The New York Times.

5. Viorst contends that our unconscious sexual thoughts toward friends are masked as what?
(a) Concern, devotion, and affection.
(b) Hostility.
(c) Ridicule and anger.
(d) Flirtatious behavior.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Viorst describe the first loss we experience as humans?

2. Levinson calls a mid-life crisis what?

3. According to Freud, when does the age of latency occur?

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

5. According to the book, the conscious daydreams that drift through our minds bring hints to us of what kind of world?

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