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

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

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

4. At what ages would Freud consider the latency period for girls?
(a) About 6 - puberty
(b) About 3 - puberty
(c) About 8 - puberty
(d) About 10- puberty

5. About how many children does Dr. Pipher indicate come from, or spend a part of, their childhood in a single parent home?
(a) Three fourths
(b) Half
(c) One fourth
(d) Seven Eighths

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a descriptor of a healthy adult according to Broverman's study?

2. Which of the following best describes how girls perceive distant fathers as compared to mothers?

3. What speculation does Pipher make about girls who are raised to be open-minded and curious?

4. Which of the following is the best definition of vibrancy as described by Miller?

5. How does Dr. Pipher describe surface structure?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the second dimension and the two extremes which make it up as described by Pipher?

2. What is dysfunctional, according to Dr. Pipher, and what does this mean for parents?

3. How do teenagers view their parents' divorces and what happens to the authority of the parents after a divorce?

4. What generalization does Dr. Pipher make for the girls who come to therapy before they reach adolescence?

5. Describe the contradictions that occur between the expectations between the father and mother according to Dr. Pipher.

6. What concerns Dr. Pipher most about divorce and why is she concerned about this issue?

7. According to Miller, what do patients do to fit in better?

8. Describe Miller's definition of vibrancy and provide an example of how it can be overcome?

9. Why does Dr. Pipher believe that adolescents are most impacted by divorce?

10. How does Fay feel about her daughter's announcement that she is a lesbian?

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