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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. According to Otto Kernberg, adolescent romantic love is the normal, crucial beginning of what?
2. What is the "corporate characteristic" that Viorst mentions in Chapter 15?
3. What type of relationship reinforces our self-knowledge, widens our worldview, and supports our self-esteem?
4. As our parents grow old, get sick, and die, we learn to do what in relation to imperfect connections?
5. Madame Bovary uses what metaphor to describe marriage?
Short Essay Questions
1. Name two of the stages of mourning that Viorst describes in Chapter 16.
2. What is described as the ultimate separation in Chapter 18?
3. Viorst describes a sort of "opposites attract" type marriage relationship where each party meets a neurotic need of the other party. What did she call this type of arrangement?
4. According to the book, why are friends so important?
5. According to Freud, is it unusual to have sexual feelings toward friends? How does this impact our friendships with the opposite sex?
6. Other than a parent, what other things impact who a child becomes?
7. What can happen as a result of a mother's fear that her child's psyche is fragile? How can this affect the child?
8. Why does our focus shift in middle age to discovering our family's history?
9. What are a few of the difficulties of a marriage relationship mentioned in Chapter 13?
10. What types of unexpected emotions can we feel towards friends? How do they impact our friendships?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast the different times of life that are covered in the book. What is similar about them? What is different? What are some life lessons you can take away that may help you navigate the developmental stages you have yet to experience?
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast the perception that our image of our mother as an all-loving, all-encompassing being with the reality of what most mother's really must be. Why do we all seem to have such idealistic perceptions of mothers as such selfless, loving beings? Are these perceptions based in some reality or just fantasy? How do these perceptions play out and affect who we become, our expectations for love in other relationships, etc.?
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