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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 982.
(b) 50.
(c) 300.
(d) 2,000.

2. According to Chapter 7, girls have to give up more of what than boys in outgrowing their Oedipus complex?
(a) More sex.
(b) More dreams.
(c) More people.
(d) More fears.

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

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

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

6. 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) "Shifting personality."
(b) "As-if personality."
(c) "Borderline personality."
(d) "Chameleon personality."

7. Sigmund Freud once said, "When you meet a human being, the first distinction you make is ______________?"
(a) Old or young.
(b) Male or female.
(c) Crazy or sane.
(d) Smart or stupid.

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

9. According to Viorst, we not only try to re-live the good experiences from our past, but also seek to re-create the bad ones in an effort to do what?
(a) In an effort to assess how we performed.
(b) In an effort to correct them.
(c) In an effort to torture ourselves.
(d) In an effort to rehearse for the future.

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

11. How does Viorst describe the first loss we experience as humans?
(a) New beginning.
(b) Original loss.
(c) Launch of independence.
(d) First separation.

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

13. During the age of latency, fear, anger, and harsh conscience make it difficult to do what?
(a) Concentrate on school.
(b) Develop into our own person.
(c) Maintain a good relationship with our parents.
(d) Make the break from our parents.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Viorst feels that there is a always a grain of what in our love relationships?

3. According to the author, absence makes the heart grow _____________.

4. What Christmas gift caused Brooke Hayward so much anguish when asked if her little sister could play with it?

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

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