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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Repression, reaction formation, isolation, and denial are all mechanisms of defense against what?
(a) Rivalry.
(b) Fear.
(c) Anger.
(d) Insecurity.

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

4. Henry David Thoreau's little isolated cabin was how far from his mother's house?
(a) One state away.
(b) One mile.
(c) One day on a horse.
(d) Ten miles.

5. The following verse is from what poem? "And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns, About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home, In the sun that is young once only, Time let me play and be..."
(a) "Green and Golden."
(b) "Fern Hill."
(c) "Young Once."
(d) "Holy Streams."

Short Answer Questions

1. According to psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, immature love follows what principle?

2. According to Freud, when does the age of latency occur?

3. Which fictional character mentioned in the book chooses not to become a man, and stay as a boy forever?

4. Even as adults, according to the author, we still view our mothers as what?

5. Who created the character Alexander Portnoy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Despite a constant desire for independence, why do young children keep coming back to their mothers?

2. Growing up means what, according to Chapter 10?

3. Describe the four stages of standing alone.

4. Describe repetition compulsion and what we may be trying to accomplish through it.

5. When a child sees a mother as all-good or all-bad, how can this affect their future relationships?

6. Why were Hansel and Gretel so close to each other relationally?

7. Excessive punishment of ourselves rests on the illusion of what?

8. According to psychoanalyst Margaret Mahler, what is our "psychological birth" ?

9. What happens when we do not behave in accordance with our conscience?

10. Discuss some of the means, covered in Chapter 2, by which we attempt to restore oneness with our mothers.

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