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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As adults, we are able to see ourselves as in control, not as ___________.
(a) Mental patients.
(b) Aggressors.
(c) Victims.
(d) Children.

2. Sibling rivalry tends to do what as we get older?
(a) Increase.
(b) Disappear.
(c) Intensify.
(d) Diminish.

3. According to Chapter 11, we sometimes fear that our fantasies can do what?
(a) Change us.
(b) Have the power to control reality.
(c) Make us mean.
(d) Reveal the sick, depraved person we really are.

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

5. According to Viorst, we not only try to re-live the good experiences from our past, but also seek to re-create the bad ones in an effort to do what?
(a) In an effort to rehearse for the future.
(b) In an effort to correct them.
(c) In an effort to assess how we performed.
(d) In an effort to torture ourselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. Intimate male-female relationships are rare because of what?

2. According to Chapter 7, our adult sexuality is in response to what?

3. At the end of Chapter 8, Margaret Mead uses what type of profession in her analogy about accepting what we were born with?

4. The earliest text on the subject of aging came from where?

5. Chapter 1 concludes by stating that the yearning to restore the bliss of mother-child oneness is _____________________.

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