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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two feelings battle each other at every stage of development?
(a) Our desire for freedom versus our desire for protection.
(b) Our desire to please our mother versus our desire to please ourselves.
(c) Our desire to learn versus our desire to have fun.
(d) Our desire for love versus our desire to be loved.

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

3. Viorst feels that in adulthood we may seek out the wanted parent in an effort to do what?
(a) Win the battle over the other parent.
(b) Make the other parent jealous.
(c) Work through the feelings of childhood.
(d) Put an end to the inappropriate feelings once and for all.

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

5. Subliminal messages of "Mommy and I are one," have proven to result in what?
(a) Warm, fuzzy feelings.
(b) Spontaneous smiling.
(c) Great anxiety.
(d) Higher achievements.

6. According to Chapter 6, is sibling rivalry normal and universal?
(a) Only in industrialized nations.
(b) It depends on the parenting style.
(c) Only in the United States.
(d) Ten out of ten psychoanalysts answer yes.

7. "Our conscience is our _____________ installed in our mind."
(a) Collective consciousness.
(b) Society.
(c) Religion.
(d) Parents.

8. What does the author state that extended separation from a mother can cause a child?
(a) A good chance to socialize with other people.
(b) A sense of independence.
(c) Hunger.
(d) Pain and permanent damage.

9. Escaping to an earlier stage of development in an effort to deal with socially unacceptable feelings toward a new sibling is called what?
(a) Regression.
(b) Avoidance.
(c) Two steps back.
(d) Escapism.

10. Margaret Mead points out that we have labeled the Oedipal issue as a _______________.
(a) Success.
(b) Valid response.
(c) Ridiculous behavior.
(d) Negative.

11. While in the hospital, a little boy who was set on fire by his mother is crying for whom?
(a) His father.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His nurse.
(d) His mother.

12. According to Viorst, siblings destroy our dream of what?
(a) Living an idyllic life.
(b) Absolute love.
(c) Being our mother's favorite.
(d) Being best friends with our sibling.

13. Drugs, communing with nature, religious experiences, and meditation are all ways in which people seek to what?
(a) Escape from the stress of everyday life.
(b) Fit in and find acceptance with others.
(c) Reach a higher level of awareness.
(d) Bridge the loss of oneness with our mother.

14. According to the author, absence makes the heart grow _____________.
(a) Frantic.
(b) Warmer.
(c) Fonder.
(d) Colder.

15. Some children develop a false self from what type of parenting?
(a) Over-protective parenting.
(b) Strict parenting.
(c) Uninvolved parenting.
(d) Imaginative parenting.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 11, what is built of imperfect connections?

2. The Cinderella Complex says that women are programmed for what?

3. After fantasizing about her mother having a fatal heart attack, a woman drove up to her mother's apartment building to find what?

4. As children, Viorst thinks we test reality with what?

5. Some primitive tribes have allowed their men to express what sort of envy?

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