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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Chapter 7, what destroys the innocence of the family bond?
(a) Parents who argue.
(b) Incest.
(c) Divorce.
(d) Physical abuse.

3. Viorst states that some oneness experiences can go too far and cause what?
(a) Physical injury.
(b) Self-preservation.
(c) Hatred of oneself.
(d) Self-annihilation.

4. What was the name of the married woman with four children, mentioned in Chapter 12, who formed a non-sexual friendship with another man?
(a) Evelyn.
(b) Dorothy.
(c) Elizabeth.
(d) Lucy.

5. What famous author's memoir entitled Speak, Memory does Viorst reference at the end of Chapter 14?
(a) Vladimir Nabokov
(b) James Joyce
(c) Frank McCourt
(d) Leo Tolstoy

Short Answer Questions

1. Viorst feels our sexual nature comes from where?

2. At what age do we develop the superego?

3. According to Otto Kernberg, adolescent romantic love is the normal, crucial beginning of what?

4. Madame Bovary uses what metaphor to describe marriage?

5. Even as adults, according to the author, we still view our mothers as what?

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