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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Worshiping the Gods of Thinness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What concerns Dr. Pipher about many of the children of divorce?
(a) It makes them turn to sexual promiscuity
(b) It makes them use drugs and alcohols
(c) It causes them to struggle to meet appropriate expectations
(d) They end up in single parent homes

2. Which of the following is not a descriptor of a healthy adult according to Broverman's study?
(a) Independent
(b) Logical
(c) Dependent
(d) Active

3. What does Dr. Pipher indicate that most teens are not mature enough to understand?
(a) Parents involved in divorce still love them
(b) Parents involved in divorce are happier and have less pressure
(c) Parents involved in divorce are suffering too
(d) Parents involved in divorce are not punishing the teens

4. What percentage of families fits the traditional dynamic according to Pipher?
(a) 14%
(b) 32%
(c) 21%
(d) 5%

5. What choice does Alice Miller indicate young children have to make?
(a) Be authentic or deceitful
(b) Be authentic or hateful
(c) Be honest or loved
(d) Be honest or dishonest

Short Answer Questions

1. What is this chapter mainly about?

2. Who or what does Miller hold responsible for the split between child and adult during adolescence?

3. What type of student is Whitney?

4. What does Miller believe elevates a child's "false" self?

5. What is the overshadowing problem concerning Franchesca?

(see the answer key)

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