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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Winnicott argues that denying _____ prevents "the developing child from facing and learning to tolerate" this emotion in themselves.
2. Which well-known psychologist noted that if a child can fight a sibling and win, he becomes a fighter. However, if he is not allowed to win, he will often not compete later in life?
3. In the example of a woman dreaming of a German Nazi officer, she is really associating with what?
4. The following verse is from what poem? "And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns, About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home, In the sun that is young once only, Time let me play and be..."
5. There are _______ unanswered questions about the innate differences between the sexes.
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Freud name it the Oedipus complex?
2. According to Viorst, why is it okay to have fantasies that are inappropriate if they aren't acted upon?
3. Describe repetition compulsion and what we may be trying to accomplish through it.
4. Discuss some of the means, covered in Chapter 2, by which we attempt to restore oneness with our mothers.
5. What did Alfred Adler note about the relationship between siblings and how it influences who we become as adults?
6. What support does Viorst give to the Cinderella Complex?
7. According to psychoanalyst Margaret Mahler, what is our "psychological birth" ?
8. What did Stanley Milgram's experiment reveal about people?
9. Why did Art Buchwald, journalist and friend of the author, say that he understands about "scars on the brain"?
10. Rather than be trapped in mourning for what we did not get as children, what does the author propose we do?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast normal/healthy mourning with that of chronic mourning, according to the book. How are they similar? What is different about the process of chronic mourning? Can grief be resolved through either process?
Essay Topic 2
Viorst describes various types of guilt throughout Chapter 9. Describe what they are, how they differ, and whether each one serves to help us or negatively impact us.
Essay Topic 3
Chapter 14 discusses the theory that parents will do anything to protect their children and try to give them a better life than they themselves had. Discuss the various ways in which mothers, especially, try to make their children better people than themselves. Use examples from the book for support.
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