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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Oracle complex.
(c) The Oedipus complex.
(d) The Electra complex.

2. After fantasizing about her mother having a fatal heart attack, a woman drove up to her mother's apartment building to find what?
(a) Everyone having a block party.
(b) A fire and fire truck.
(c) Her mother being loaded into an ambulance.
(d) Her mother's upstairs neighbor being loaded into an ambulance.

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

4. The Cinderella Complex says that women are programmed for what?
(a) Helplessness.
(b) Motherhood.
(c) Dependency.
(d) Being a maid.

5. In the anecdote about the holy man painting a portrait for a king, who ends up being revealed in the painting?
(a) The holy man.
(b) The king's wife.
(c) The king's daughter.
(d) The king.

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

7. 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) Reach a higher level of awareness.
(c) Fit in and find acceptance with others.
(d) Bridge the loss of oneness with our mother.

8. 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 rogue, subterranean world.
(c) A perfect world.
(d) A just world.

9. Which fictional character mentioned in the book chooses not to become a man, and stay as a boy forever?
(a) Peter Pan.
(b) King Arthur.
(c) Robin Hood.
(d) Saint George.

10. 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.

11. Why does Viorst say we "need the controls provided by guilt"?
(a) To understand unhappiness.
(b) To take care of ourselves.
(c) To build relationships with other people.
(d) To live a healthy life.

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

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

14. According to Viorst, grown-up love must begin with what?
(a) A mature understanding of self.
(b) Two grown adults.
(c) The separation of self from the other.
(d) An ability to forgive others.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Viorst purport that we form an identification of "I"?

2. According to Chapter 7, what destroys the innocence of the family bond?

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

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

5. When a mother rejects a child's need for dependence and pushes them out of the nest too soon, what can happen?

(see the answer keys)

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