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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the book, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret?
(a) Beverly Cleary
(b) Judy Blume
(c) Madeleine L'Engle
(d) J.K. Rowling

2. According to Viorst, what is one of our first treasures that we don't want to share?
(a) Our mother's milk.
(b) Our special blanket.
(c) Our father's love.
(d) Our mother's love.

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

4. Which two psychologists believe that the contacts between infant and mother produce a "deep libidinal pleasure"?
(a) Skinner and Sullivan.
(b) Jung and Adler.
(c) Freud and Erikson.
(d) Piaget and Spock.

5. As children, Viorst thinks we test reality with what?
(a) Daydreaming.
(b) Wishful thinking.
(c) Our actions.
(d) Our pretend play.

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

7. What are the ingrained patterns repeated in adulthood due to childhood experiences called?
(a) Repetition compulsion.
(b) Bad habits.
(c) Revisiting the past.
(d) Familiarity complex.

8. Chapter 1 concludes by stating that the yearning to restore the bliss of mother-child oneness is _____________________.
(a) Only quenched when we find another meaningful relationship.
(b) Never relinquished.
(c) Satisfied upon entry into adulthood.
(d) Worse when we are sick or injured.

9. Who created the character Alexander Portnoy?
(a) Philip Roth.
(b) Nathaniel Hawthorne.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

10. The following verse is from what poem? "And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns, About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home, In the sun that is young once only, Time let me play and be..."
(a) "Young Once."
(b) "Green and Golden."
(c) "Holy Streams."
(d) "Fern Hill."

11. According to Art Buchwald, what are "the three worst words in the language"?
(a) Hebrew, orphan, asylum.
(b) Lonely, stray, hospital.
(c) Jewish, urchin, institution.
(d) Isolated, hopeless, angry.

12. At what age do we develop the superego?
(a) Five.
(b) Twenty-five.
(c) Eighteen.
(d) Thirteen.

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

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

15. According to Viorst, how often do families discuss sibling rivalry?
(a) Families discuss it frequently.
(b) Families do not discuss it at all.
(c) Families do not discuss it until the children are grown.
(d) Families discuss it only when there is a fight between siblings.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the example of a woman dreaming of a German Nazi officer, she is really associating with what?

2. Viorst feels that only through _____________ can "our loss be transcended."

3. Subliminal messages of "Mommy and I are one," have proven to result in what?

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

5. Which person coined the phrase Cinderella Complex?

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