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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The idea that we are all in love with the parent of the opposite sex is known as what?
(a) The Oedipus complex.
(b) The Odysseus complex.
(c) The Oracle complex.
(d) The Electra complex.

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

3. At the end of Chapter 8, Margaret Mead uses what type of profession in her analogy about accepting what we were born with?
(a) Hunter.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Potter.
(d) Blacksmith.

4. Which person coined the phrase Cinderella Complex?
(a) Colette Dowling.
(b) Judith Viorst.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Colleen Rodman.

5. Repression, reaction formation, isolation, and denial are all mechanisms of defense against what?
(a) Insecurity.
(b) Anger.
(c) Rivalry.
(d) Fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. Drugs, communing with nature, religious experiences, and meditation are all ways in which people seek to what?

2. According to Viorst, the different roles we assign ourselves keep life interesting and fluid, rather than _____________.

3. While in the hospital, a little boy who was set on fire by his mother is crying for whom?

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

5. The following verse is from what poem? "And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns, About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home, In the sun that is young once only, Time let me play and be..."

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