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

2. According to Freud, when does the age of latency occur?
(a) 3-5 years old.
(b) 18-21 years old.
(c) 7-10 years old.
(d) 13-18 years old.

3. What is the name of the philosopher who said, "Man is the being who is capable of becoming guilty and is capable of illuminating his guilt"?
(a) Dallas Willard.
(b) Martin Buber.
(c) John Locke.
(d) Friedrich Nietzsche.

4. In the study discussed in Chapter 8, how many school children were asked how their lives would be different if they woke up the next morning as the opposite sex?
(a) 50.
(b) 982.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 300.

5. What is one of the necessary losses discussed in Chapter 3?
(a) To give up our need for control.
(b) To give up on the idea that we are independent beings.
(c) To give up the many identities we try out.
(d) To give up on being one with our mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mrs. C slept in the same bed as her mother until she was how old?

2. According to Viorst, what is one of our first treasures that we don't want to share?

3. Freud said that every dream contains what?

4. Which of the answers below describes the stages and challenges of the life cycle according to Erik Erikson?

5. At the end of Chapter 8, Margaret Mead uses what type of profession in her analogy about accepting what we were born with?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are we afraid of fantasies that portray socially unacceptable behavior?

2. Rather than be trapped in mourning for what we did not get as children, what does the author propose we do?

3. What does our superego have to do with resolving the Oedipus complex?

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

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

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

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

8. Endocrinologist Estelle Ramey uses what example to support her theory that virtually all differences between male and female are cultural?

9. Why do children experience sibling rivalry?

10. What did Alfred Adler note about the relationship between siblings and how it influences who we become as adults?

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