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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the personality that evolves when a child cannot trust their own feelings and takes on the personality traits of others?
(a) "As-if personality."
(b) "Borderline personality."
(c) "Chameleon personality."
(d) "Shifting personality."

2. The earliest text on the subject of aging came from where?
(a) China.
(b) Iraq.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Greece.

3. Who once said, "God ordains that every genius shall have an illness at forty"?
(a) Oscar Wilde.
(b) Arthur Miller.
(c) George Bernard Shaw.
(d) Mark Twain.

4. What are the names of Viorst's three sons?
(a) Anthony, Nicholas, and Alexander
(b) Michael, William, and Henry
(c) Shannon, Scott, and Brian
(d) Tony, John, and Robert

5. Viorst feels our sexual nature comes from where?
(a) It is formed in our mind.
(b) It is inborn and shaped by our environment.
(c) It comes from our DNA.
(d) It comes from the messages around us.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the answers below describes the stages and challenges of the life cycle according to Erik Erikson?

2. How is it believed that infants perceive their needs in relation to their mother?

3. 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?

4. Which person coined the phrase Cinderella Complex?

5. Mrs. C slept in the same bed as her mother until she was how old?

(see the answer key)

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