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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is one of the necessary losses discussed in Chapter 3?
(a) To give up our need for control.
(b) To give up the many identities we try out.
(c) To give up on the idea that we are independent beings.
(d) To give up on being one with our mother.

3. According to Chapter 11, we sometimes fear that our fantasies can do what?
(a) Reveal the sick, depraved person we really are.
(b) Make us mean.
(c) Have the power to control reality.
(d) Change us.

4. Which person coined the phrase Cinderella Complex?
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Judith Viorst.
(c) Colleen Rodman.
(d) Colette Dowling.

5. What Christmas gift caused Brooke Hayward so much anguish when asked if her little sister could play with it?
(a) A pair of roller skates.
(b) A set of artist's paints.
(c) A dollhouse.
(d) A bike.

6. The idea that we are all in love with the parent of the opposite sex is known as what?
(a) The Odysseus complex.
(b) The Oedipus complex.
(c) The Electra complex.
(d) The Oracle complex.

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

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

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

10. When the child decides to replace the hostility towards the new sibling with some other activity, it is referred to as what?
(a) Identification.
(b) Sublimation.
(c) Subluxation.
(d) Replacementation.

11. When a mother rejects a child's need for dependence and pushes them out of the nest too soon, what can happen?
(a) We adapt, or crumple, or compromise.
(b) We scream, or cry, or get angry.
(c) We crash to the ground.
(d) We grow amazingly strong wings.

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

13. According to the author, what do babies need?
(a) A consistent caregiver.
(b) Clothing.
(c) Mothers.
(d) Fathers.

14. According to Freud, when does the age of latency occur?
(a) 7-10 years old.
(b) 13-18 years old.
(c) 18-21 years old.
(d) 3-5 years old.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 11 discusses our what?

2. According to Viorst, how often do families discuss sibling rivalry?

3. According to Viorst, which two abilities at which boys excel are the only ones based in scientific fact?

4. Chapter 5 states that even an average mother is perceived by a child as _____________.

5. Henry David Thoreau's little isolated cabin was how far from his mother's house?

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