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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Madame Bovary uses what metaphor to describe marriage?
(a) A beautiful spring day spent in a field of wildflowers.
(b) An exquisite French dessert, delicious, but hard to create.
(c) An intimate and joyful day on a private beach in Fiji.
(d) A great rosy-plumaged bird soaring in the splendors of poetic skies.

3. Who was the psychologist who said that marriage requires "a wise balancing of love and hate"?
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Chad Goodwin.
(c) America Ferrera.
(d) Israel Charny.

4. The following headline ran in what paper? "HER OUTSIDE PREOCCUPATION CAN LEAVE HIM ISOLATED AT TIME OF MORE LEISURE"
(a) The Wall Street Journal.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) The Chicago Tribune.
(d) The Washington Post.

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

6. According to Viorst, the different roles we assign ourselves keep life interesting and fluid, rather than _____________.
(a) Constricting.
(b) Unpredictable.
(c) Boring.
(d) Topsy-turvy.

7. In Chapter 14, Viorst lists what about her hometown?
(a) How the different relationships impact the town.
(b) A list of families and their children's tragic choices.
(c) The best places to eat.
(d) The various houses she lived in.

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

9. According to a psychologist in Chapter 13, husbands and wives are each other's what?
(a) Greatest lovers.
(b) Best friends.
(c) Coping mechanism.
(d) Intimate enemies.

10. According to Viorst, what types of feelings are present in ALL friendships?
(a) Competitive feelings.
(b) Reserved feelings.
(c) Feelings of love.
(d) Sad feelings.

11. Who once said, "God ordains that every genius shall have an illness at forty"?
(a) Oscar Wilde.
(b) Arthur Miller.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) George Bernard Shaw.

12. 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."
(a) George Eliot.
(b) Virginia Woolf.
(c) Emily Dickinson.
(d) Annie Dillard.

13. What type of relationship reinforces our self-knowledge, widens our worldview, and supports our self-esteem?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Marriage.
(c) The parent-child relationship.
(d) A mentoring relationship.

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

15. Viorst references The World According to Garp and a mishearing of this term by a child.
(a) Earthquake.
(b) Thunder.
(c) Tsunami.
(d) Undertow.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Otto Kernberg, adolescent romantic love is the normal, crucial beginning of what?

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

3. Which book referenced in Chapter 14 references the "good mother"?

4. The title of Chapter 12 lists what?

5. Viorst contends that our unconscious sexual thoughts toward friends are masked as what?

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