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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. According to Viorst, what is one of our first treasures that we don't want to share?
(a) Our special blanket.
(b) Our mother's love.
(c) Our mother's milk.
(d) Our father's love.

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

3. What does the author state that extended separation from a mother can cause a child?
(a) Pain and permanent damage.
(b) A sense of independence.
(c) Hunger.
(d) A good chance to socialize with other people.

4. What is the name of the personality that evolves when a child cannot trust their own feelings and takes on the personality traits of others?
(a) "Borderline personality."
(b) "Shifting personality."
(c) "As-if personality."
(d) "Chameleon personality."

5. Seeing our own feelings as those of the new baby's is known as what?
(a) Confusion.
(b) Projection.
(c) Yours and mine syndrome.
(d) Entanglement of self.

Short Answer Questions

1. Some primitive tribes have allowed their men to express what sort of envy?

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

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

4. How does the author feel we can move past re-creating what has already happened?

5. According to Art Buchwald, what are "the three worst words in the language"?

Short Essay Questions

1. The term "penis envy" can sound quite ridiculous, but Viorst points out that it takes on many metaphorical meanings. What are some of those possible symbolic meanings?

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

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

4. What did Stanley Milgram's experiment reveal about people?

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

6. Describe the four stages of standing alone.

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

8. How does the author propose that some men compensate for their envy of a woman's ability to have children?

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

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

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