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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. Who or what does Miller hold responsible for the split between child and adult during adolescence?
(a) Hormones
(b) Parents
(c) Culture
(d) Males

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

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

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

5. Which of the following is not one of the types of father-daughter relationships Dr. Pipher describes?
(a) Reluctant
(b) Distant
(c) Supportive
(d) Abusive

Short Answer Questions

1. Which type of parents may have children who struggle in social settings and lack confidence?

2. Which of the following best describes how Dr. Pipher feels about Western civilization and mothers?

3. Which adjective best describes how Dr. Pipher believes divorce affects the lives of children?

4. Which describes how many adolescents feel?

5. What is the second dimension according to Pipher?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What contradiction does Dr. Pipher describe between who gets credit for raising a strong daughter and who is more typically responsible?

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

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

7. Why does Dr. Pipher believe that young girls are particularly difficult to develop theories about in regard to treatment?

8. Why does Dr. Pipher describe adolescent girls as female impersonators?

9. What seems to be the reason that Jessica is rebelling and how does her mother react to this rebellion?

10. According to Dr. Pipher, which is better for children: an unhappy marriage or a divorce? Why does she feel the way she does?

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