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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Dr. Pipher say is often given the credit for raising strong daughters?
(a) Peers
(b) Mothers
(c) Fathers
(d) Daughters

2. How does Dr. Pipher define imaginary audience syndrome?
(a) Acting as if you are on a stage all the time
(b) Thinking people are always scrutinizing your every move
(c) Emotional over-reactions to situations
(d) Instead of living, acting as if you are performing life

3. What do the dreams of being paralyzed or being stuck in quicksand represent according to Pipher?
(a) Struggle to search for their true self
(b) Fight for freedom from parental restrictions
(c) Fighting forces beyond their control
(d) Struggle to gain independence

4. Which of the following skills does Dr. Pipher stress girls, in particular, need to be encouraged to do?
(a) Celebrate their successes
(b) Think logically
(c) Rethink perfectionist beliefs
(d) Persevere

5. Which of the following best describes how girls perceive distant fathers as compared to mothers?
(a) More supportive
(b) More rigid
(c) More understanding
(d) More willing to listen

6. What does Dr. Pipher compare girls of divorce to?
(a) Rip currents pulling people under
(b) Thunderstorms booming loudly
(c) Hurricanes hitting the shore
(d) Saplings in a storm

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

8. How does Dr. Pipher describe adolescent girls?
(a) Unpleasing souls
(b) Unrealistic girls
(c) Adult-haters
(d) Female impersonators

9. How does Dr. Pipher describe deep structure?
(a) Root cause of behavior
(b) What others can see
(c) Camouflage behavior
(d) Internal struggles

10. Why does Dr. Pipher believe that bright, sensitive girls are more at risk for problems?
(a) Women are too highly sexualized
(b) They are exposed to more anti-female writings
(c) They do not see enough realistic female role models
(d) They are aware of the conflicting forces in their lives

11. According to Dr. Pipher, adolescence requires daughters to distance themselves from who?
(a) Their siblings
(b) Their peers
(c) Their parents
(d) The person with whom they are most closely identified

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

13. When Hamlet rejects Ophelia for being obedient to her father what happens to her?
(a) She immediately drowns
(b) She leaves by running away
(c) She goes insane
(d) She reverts to her pre-adolescence personality

14. Divorce can be devastating and it can be an opportunity for what?
(a) Financial success
(b) Surprise
(c) Growth
(d) Retribution

15. Which of the following terms best describes how Jessica feels?
(a) Different
(b) Angry
(c) Independent
(d) Smothered

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not one of the types of father-daughter relationships Dr. Pipher describes?

2. Which girls does Dr. Pipher indicate handle divorce the best?

3. What do many teens do after a divorce?

4. Which of the following does not describe Cayenne as a young girl?

5. What does Myra do to her parents?

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