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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. Drugs, communing with nature, religious experiences, and meditation are all ways in which people seek to what?
(a) Reach a higher level of awareness.
(b) Fit in and find acceptance with others.
(c) Escape from the stress of everyday life.
(d) Bridge the loss of oneness with our mother.

2. Viorst feels our sexual nature comes from where?
(a) It comes from the messages around us.
(b) It comes from our DNA.
(c) It is inborn and shaped by our environment.
(d) It is formed in our mind.

3. According to psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, immature love follows what principle?
(a) I love you because I need you.
(b) I am loved because I love.
(c) I need you because I love you.
(d) I hate you because I love you.

4. 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 milk.
(c) Our father's love.
(d) Our mother's love.

5. The first sentence of Chapter 1 states that, "Life begins with _______."
(a) Love.
(b) Crying.
(c) Loss.
(d) Birth.

Short Answer Questions

1. As a result of unconscious guilt, criminals sometimes do what?

2. In the anecdote about the holy man painting a portrait for a king, who ends up being revealed in the painting?

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

4. When a mother rejects a child's need for dependence and pushes them out of the nest too soon, what can happen?

5. What two feelings battle each other at every stage of development?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why do we have fantasies?

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

6. Why did Freud name it the Oedipus complex?

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

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

9. 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?

10. Why does sibling rivalry tend to diminish with age?

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