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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Parents have trouble seeing their children as what?
(a) Anything but perfect.
(b) A part of themselves.
(c) Competent humans.
(d) Separate people.

2. According to a psychologist in Chapter 13, husbands and wives are each other's what?
(a) Intimate enemies.
(b) Coping mechanism.
(c) Greatest lovers.
(d) Best friends.

3. 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?
(a) "Shifting personality."
(b) "Borderline personality."
(c) "As-if personality."
(d) "Chameleon personality."

4. 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) Oedipus complex.
(d) Separation anxiety.

5. According to Viorst, how often do families discuss sibling rivalry?
(a) Families discuss it only when there is a fight between siblings.
(b) Families do not discuss it until the children are grown.
(c) Families do not discuss it at all.
(d) Families discuss it frequently.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 8, it is believed that girls have a greater _______________ ability as opposed to boys.

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

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

4. Who once said, "God ordains that every genius shall have an illness at forty"?

5. Which of the following psychoanalysts said we create religion to "exorcise the terrors" of nature?

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