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

2. Chapter 11 discusses our what?
(a) Sleeping patterns.
(b) Perception of reality.
(c) Fantasies.
(d) Parents' expectations.

3. Viorst states that some oneness experiences can go too far and cause what?
(a) Hatred of oneself.
(b) Self-annihilation.
(c) Physical injury.
(d) Self-preservation.

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

5. Viorst feels that only through _____________ can "our loss be transcended."
(a) Love.
(b) Learning.
(c) Life.
(d) Grief.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 7, girls have to give up more of what than boys in outgrowing their Oedipus complex?

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

3. According to Viorst, in what way do we primarily form our self-identity?

4. Sibling rivalry tends to do what as we get older?

5. 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?

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

3. Why do children experience sibling rivalry?

4. Denying hate prevents what, according to Winicott?

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

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

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

8. Why do psychologists think the "Mommy and I Are One" experiments worked?

9. Why do we have fantasies?

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

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