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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In the example of a woman dreaming of a German Nazi officer, she is really associating with what?
(a) Her cruel boss demanding she work overtime.
(b) The police man who gave her a ticket earlier in the day.
(c) Her controlling husband forbidding her to go out.
(d) Her overbearing mother urging her to eat in Yiddish.

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

5. By consolidating our own "inner law enforcer or superego," we can resolve what in a healthy way?
(a) The Oedipus complex.
(b) Our fear of authority.
(c) Our fear of abandoment.
(d) The inadequate feelings of childhood.

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

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

8. When we allow some person or group to stand in place of our own conscience, this leads to what?
(a) Unconscious guilt.
(b) Deficient guilt.
(c) Dependent guilt.
(d) Indiscriminate guilt.

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

10. According to Viorst, which two abilities at which boys excel are the only ones based in scientific fact?
(a) Sports and hunting.
(b) Verbal and scientific.
(c) Aggression and visual spatial ability.
(d) Math and science.

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

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

13. Mrs. C slept in the same bed as her mother until she was how old?
(a) 5 years old.
(b) 20 years old.
(c) 10 years old.
(d) 40 years old.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The first sentence of Chapter 1 states that, "Life begins with _______."

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

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

4. How does the author feel we can move past re-creating what has already happened?

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

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