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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Seeing our own feelings as those of the new baby's is known as what?
(a) Projection.
(b) Entanglement of self.
(c) Yours and mine syndrome.
(d) Confusion.

2. Who created the character Alexander Portnoy?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Nathaniel Hawthorne.
(c) Philip Roth.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

3. In Chapter 14, Viorst lists what about her hometown?
(a) How the different relationships impact the town.
(b) The best places to eat.
(c) A list of families and their children's tragic choices.
(d) The various houses she lived in.

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

5. In Chapter 16, Viorst quotes which psychologist who wrote the book Loss?
(a) John Bowlby.
(b) Erik Erikson.
(c) Erich Fromm.
(d) Jean Piaget.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two feelings battle each other at every stage of development?

2. As a result of unconscious guilt, criminals sometimes do what?

3. What are the names of Viorst's three sons?

4. In this book, mentioned in Chapter 12, it is stated that despite sexual feelings toward friends of the same sex, individuals need not necessarily define themselves as "homosexual." What is the name of the book?

5. By consolidating our own "inner law enforcer or superego," we can resolve what in a healthy way?

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