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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 Chapter 7, our adult sexuality is in response to what?
(a) Our religious upbringing.
(b) Libidinal conflicts.
(c) Oedipal conflicts.
(d) The messages media convey.

2. According to Chapter 9, what feeling could be fear of the loss of our own love?
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Shame.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Guilt.

3. What does this line from a poem by Longfellow tell us about old age? "Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last, Completed Faust when eighty years were past."
(a) Goethe must have really enjoyed his work.
(b) Faust isn't very good because it was written by an elderly person.
(c) Aging is hard work.
(d) It's never too late.

4. Which fictional character mentioned in the book chooses not to become a man, and stay as a boy forever?
(a) Saint George.
(b) King Arthur.
(c) Robin Hood.
(d) Peter Pan.

5. The title of Chapter 12 lists what?
(a) Types of adults.
(b) Types of friendships.
(c) Types of teenagers.
(d) Types of parenting styles.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's highly influential book?

3. According to Chapter 9, how do we eventually resolve the Oedipus complex?

4. Levinson calls a mid-life crisis what?

5. Simone de Beauvoir once said, "Old age is life's ___________."

(see the answer key)

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