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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 understand unhappiness.
(c) To build relationships with other people.
(d) To live a healthy life.

2. What was the name of the "weird little novel" mentioned by Viorst in Chapter 8?
(a) The Catcher in the Rye.
(b) Confederacy of Dunces.
(c) The Moviegoer.
(d) The Men's Club.

3. As a result of unconscious guilt, criminals sometimes do what?
(a) Leave self-damaging evidence.
(b) Confess.
(c) Hide thier crimes.
(d) Lie to authority figures.

4. Marvin and _______ experience great physical discomfort because of their unconscious guilt.
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Ellie.
(c) Donna.
(d) Sarah.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the child decides to replace the hostility towards the new sibling with some other activity, it is referred to as what?

2. By consolidating our own "inner law enforcer or superego," we can resolve what in a healthy way?

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

4. Repression, reaction formation, isolation, and denial are all mechanisms of defense against what?

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

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

3. What support does Viorst give to the Cinderella Complex?

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

5. Briefly describe the difference between infantile love, immature love, and mature love.

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

7. According to Chapter 9, what kind of person lacks guilt?

8. Who first discovered the Oedipus complex? How did he/she describe it?

9. Why did Freud name it the Oedipus complex?

10. Denying hate prevents what, according to Winicott?

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