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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did Viorst fantasize about taking care of the bully who was bothering her son?
(a) Holding him up against a tree until he promised not to do it anymore.
(b) Shoving him in front of a truck.
(c) Talking to his parents.
(d) Shooting him.

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

4. Marvin and _______ experience great physical discomfort because of their unconscious guilt.
(a) Ellie.
(b) Elizabeth.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Donna.

5. There are _______ unanswered questions about the innate differences between the sexes.
(a) Fifty.
(b) Many.
(c) Flimsy.
(d) Few.

6. "Reality testing" means what?
(a) That we should just stay with our parents.
(b) That we try different roles in order to become an adult.
(c) That wishing doesn't make it so.
(d) That we go to college and experiment.

7. What is the name of the philosopher who said, "Man is the being who is capable of becoming guilty and is capable of illuminating his guilt"?
(a) John Locke.
(b) Dallas Willard.
(c) Martin Buber.
(d) Friedrich Nietzsche.

8. Winnicott argues that denying _____ prevents "the developing child from facing and learning to tolerate" this emotion in themselves.
(a) Pride.
(b) Deceit.
(c) Anger.
(d) Hatred.

9. According to psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, immature love follows what principle?
(a) I hate you because I love you.
(b) I need you because I love you.
(c) I am loved because I love.
(d) I love you because I need you.

10. Freud said that every dream contains what?
(a) Pain.
(b) Truth.
(c) A cat.
(d) A wish.

11. In the study discussed in Chapter 8, how many school children were asked how their lives would be different if they woke up the next morning as the opposite sex?
(a) 50.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 300.
(d) 982.

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

13. According to Viorst, what are we all striving to be?
(a) Someone who makes our mother proud.
(b) A separate self.
(c) A well-adjusted adult.
(d) A narcissist.

14. According to Viorst, in what way do we primarily form our self-identity?
(a) Through imitation of our parents.
(b) Through imitation of our friends.
(c) Through experimentation with different character traits.
(d) By belonging to a wide variety of social groups.

15. According to the book, the conscious daydreams that drift through our minds bring hints to us of what kind of world?
(a) A perfect world.
(b) A just world.
(c) A magical, beautiful world.
(d) A rogue, subterranean world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Viorst explain we are trying to accomplish when we try to "undo' the separation from our mother?

2. According to Chapter 8, it is believed that girls have a greater _______________ ability as opposed to boys.

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

4. During the age of latency, fear, anger, and harsh conscience make it difficult to do what?

5. Which character claimed that, "I am a part of all that I have met."

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