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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. What Christmas gift caused Brooke Hayward so much anguish when asked if her little sister could play with it?
(a) A pair of roller skates.
(b) A bike.
(c) A set of artist's paints.
(d) A dollhouse.

2. Some children develop a false self from what type of parenting?
(a) Uninvolved parenting.
(b) Imaginative parenting.
(c) Strict parenting.
(d) Over-protective parenting.

3. There are _______ unanswered questions about the innate differences between the sexes.
(a) Few.
(b) Many.
(c) Flimsy.
(d) Fifty.

4. How does Viorst purport that we form an identification of "I"?
(a) We move away to college and choose our own major.
(b) We backpack through Europe and discover ourselves.
(c) We find a good job and experience success.
(d) We begin to view ourselves as an independent being over a lifetime.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Viorst states that some oneness experiences can go too far and cause what?

2. Which character claimed that, "I am a part of all that I have met."

3. According to Viorst, what are we all striving to be?

4. In Chapter 8, the author discusses another "necessary loss." Which one is it?

5. What is composed of our noblest goals?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does J.D. Salinger's character from The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield, not want to grow up?

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

3. Why did Art Buchwald, journalist and friend of the author, say that he understands about "scars on the brain"?

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

5. Describe the four stages of standing alone.

6. According to Freud, what is the age of latency?

7. What are the four stages of human development that many analysts agree upon and how are they similar to each other?

8. Why do children experience sibling rivalry?

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

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

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