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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What's the title of the book?
(a) Impossible Expectations.
(b) Living is Loss.
(c) Necessary Losses.
(d) Ups and Downs.

2. Viorst contends that our unconscious sexual thoughts toward friends are masked as what?
(a) Flirtatious behavior.
(b) Concern, devotion, and affection.
(c) Ridicule and anger.
(d) Hostility.

3. Simone de Beauvoir once said, "Old age is life's ___________."
(a) Final act.
(b) Parody.
(c) Swan song.
(d) Cruel joke.

4. According to Chapter 14, parents suffer from the one of the following in a similar fashion to children.
(a) Fear of abandonment.
(b) Oedipus complex.
(c) Insecurity about themselves.
(d) Separation anxiety.

5. Viorst quotes this book, written by Kathrin Perutz, in Chapter 13.
(a) The Most Complicated Relationship.
(b) Heaven on Earth.
(c) Marriage is Hell.
(d) I Hate You, Too.

6. What is the first phase of mourning discussed in Chapter 16?
(a) Endless crying.
(b) Shock.
(c) Hatred of the person who left us.
(d) Renewed hope.

7. What is it called when someone keeps everything just the same after someone dies?
(a) Mummification.
(b) Museumification.
(c) Untouched grief.
(d) Creepy.

8. According to Viorst, "A new dream will arise when we begin to have our babies..." What is it?
(a) The dream of them becoming successful.
(b) The dream of them moving out and going to college.
(c) The dream of creating an amazing and perfect human.
(d) The dream of keeping them safe from harm.

9. Chapter 18 refers to which famous character as the ultimate retiree?
(a) King Lear.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Romeo.
(d) Oedipus.

10. How many stages are there in the journey towards death according to Kubler-Ross?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Ten.

11. According to Lillian Rubin, the sexual difference between men and women leads to what in a marriage relationship?
(a) A perfect partnership.
(b) Intimate strangers.
(c) Separation and divorce.
(d) Superficial friendship.

12. What is the name of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's highly influential book?
(a) On Death and Dying.
(b) Death Comes for the Archbishop.
(c) O, Death, Be Mine.
(d) The Last Cattle Call.

13. Name the foiled romantic in Flaubert's Madame Bovary.
(a) Emma.
(b) Soline.
(c) Elizabeth.
(d) Jane.

14. Friends and intimate partners are considered what?
(a) The true test of a good marriage.
(b) Two different types of relationships.
(c) One and the same.
(d) A rare phenomenon found only in humans.

15. Who was Viorst describing when she said they fought death like a championship game?
(a) Her husband, Cecil.
(b) Her sister, Lois.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her friend, Ruth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said, "In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate."

2. There are what number of friendships that Viorst labels in Chapter 12?

3. Who said the following? "Now she is aware of some of the losses you incur by being here -- the extraordinary rent you have to pay as long as you stay."

4. Parents have trouble seeing their children as what?

5. Intimate male-female relationships are rare because of what?

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