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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. What is it a sign of when girls hurt themselves externally?
(a) They suffer internal pain
(b) They suffer mental abuse
(c) They suffer schizophrenia
(d) They suffer suicidal tendencies

2. What does Dr. Pipher indicate that adolescent girls need in order to survive and flourish?
(a) Counseling
(b) Roots
(c) Peers
(d) Parents

3. What does Dr. Pipher believe must change in order to produce healthy young women?
(a) Psychology
(b) Society
(c) Parenting
(d) Media

4. How do highly gifted girls react to world events?
(a) They react by acting out in inappropriate ways
(b) They react by cutting themselves
(c) They react with the intensity of a child
(d) They react with emotional maturity

5. According to Dr. Pipher families raise their daughters to be whole, but the media reduces them to which of the following?
(a) Sexual beings
(b) Nothings
(c) Bodies
(d) Objects

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a reason that teens use drugs and alcohol?

2. What does Dr. Pipher describe as being a compounding factor with society when it comes to sexual activity?

3. Which of the following is a technique in which girls reflect on their past or future when they are having a bad day?

4. At what age did Dr. Pipher see her first television show?

5. At what age does Dr. Pipher indicate Cassie is facing the same issues that college girls of the past faced?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Pipher describe as the most defining characteristics for American women and when do girls feel the most pressure about their appearance?

2. How and why does Dr. Pipher describe the problems that highly gifted children experience?

3. In the case studies described in this chapter, what are the three reasons that the girls grow up to be strong adults?

4. What does Dr. Pipher list as the two reasons that girls feel pressure about their appearance during the adolescent years?

5. Why does Dr. Pipher believe that Tammy uses self-mutilation?

6. What event during her schooling was embarrassing for Dr. Pipher?

7. Describe the concept of awakening therapy that Dr. Pipher teaches and what the outcomes of this theory may be for the girls.

8. In what way do cities and small communities differ in the way that girls react and feel pressure?

9. What are the three specific reasons Dr. Pipher lists that adolescents use chemicals?

10. Describe what Dr. Pipher believes to be true about the Hollywood model of sexual behavior?

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