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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sort of thing did Selena's children no longer want her to do when they separated?
(a) Leave a note on their dresser.
(b) Make a Travel Book.
(c) Set out their clothes.
(d) Hire a babysitter.

2. According to Otto Kernberg, adolescent romantic love is the normal, crucial beginning of what?
(a) Adult love.
(b) Eros.
(c) Sexuality.
(d) Puppy love.

3. What are we often unaware of that we bring with us into a marriage?
(a) The Oedipus complex.
(b) Perfect love.
(c) Our parent's relationship.
(d) The unfinished business of childhood.

4. In Chapter 16, Viorst quotes which psychologist who wrote the book Loss?
(a) Erich Fromm.
(b) John Bowlby.
(c) Jean Piaget.
(d) Erik Erikson.

5. Viorst says, "Losing is the price we pay for __________."
(a) Being human.
(b) Winning.
(c) Loving.
(d) Living.

6. According to Chapter 20, Viorst is living on what to beat her middle-aged spread?
(a) Lean Cuisine.
(b) Grapefruit.
(c) NutriSystem.
(d) Weight Watchers.

7. 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.

8. A man in his forties confessed to Viorst that he reviewed his life insurance policy after he was diagnosed with what?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Heart disease.
(c) Tennis elbow.
(d) Gout.

9. Madame Bovary uses what metaphor to describe marriage?
(a) An exquisite French dessert, delicious, but hard to create.
(b) A beautiful spring day spent in a field of wildflowers.
(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.

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

11. Intimate male-female relationships are rare because of what?
(a) Socially unacceptable norms.
(b) Women would just rather talk to other women.
(c) The adultery factor.
(d) The sexual tension.

12. Which three fictional characters discussed in the book does Viorst specifically mention in Chapter 20?
(a) Hamlet, Oedipus, Owen Meany
(b) Emma Bovary, Alex Portnoy, Ivan Ilych
(c) Holden Caulfield, Hamlet, Marlow
(d) Margaret, Alex Portnoy, King Lear

13. Men pursue ______________; women yearn for _______________.
(a) Excitement; safety.
(b) Deep relationships; one night stands.
(c) Autonomy; intimacy.
(d) Sex; cuddling.

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

15. Which recent development does Viorst think is a positive new step toward good death?
(a) The hospice movement.
(b) Doctor assisted death.
(c) Increased suicides of cancer patients.
(d) Hospital good-byes.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what form of internalization do we take on aspects of those we have loved?

2. The title of Chapter 12 lists what?

3. Name the foiled romantic in Flaubert's Madame Bovary.

4. Viorst references The World According to Garp and a mishearing of this term by a child.

5. According to Lillian Rubin, the sexual difference between men and women leads to what in a marriage relationship?

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