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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author state that extended separation from a mother can cause a child?
(a) Hunger.
(b) A sense of independence.
(c) Pain and permanent damage.
(d) A good chance to socialize with other people.

2. What type of relationship reinforces our self-knowledge, widens our worldview, and supports our self-esteem?
(a) A mentoring relationship.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Marriage.
(d) The parent-child relationship.

3. "Reality testing" means what?
(a) That we should just stay with our parents.
(b) That wishing doesn't make it so.
(c) That we try different roles in order to become an adult.
(d) That we go to college and experiment.

4. Name the experimental psychologist who convinced people it was acceptable to continue shocking subjects despite their response to pain.
(a) Stanley Milgram.
(b) Richard Paredes.
(c) B.F. Skinner.
(d) Jean Piaget.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when children see their mothers as all good or all bad?

2. According to Art Buchwald, what are "the three worst words in the language"?

3. According to Chapter 6, is sibling rivalry normal and universal?

4. What does Viorst explain we are trying to accomplish when we try to "undo' the separation from our mother?

5. Viorst feels that in adulthood we may seek out the wanted parent in an effort to do what?

(see the answer key)

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