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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following adjectives best describes the relationship between Whitney and Evelyn?

2. Which of the following is the best definition for the term androgynous?

3. Which of the following is not an example of surface structure?

4. What is the second dimension according to Pipher?

5. Where does Dr. Pipher indicate an adolescent who is untroubled usually looks for guidance?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the conflicting messages that adolescent girls are faced with?

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe why Pete is concerned about his relationship with his daughter and what Dr. Pipher does about this relationship.

8. What does Dr. Pipher indicate is the problem as it relates to young girls with fairy tales?

9. In what ways does Pipher compare families of the 1990s with those in previous years of history?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role does the media play in the upbringing of young girls? What are examples of the media's roles? Do you believe these are good roles or poor roles? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Why do you believe anorexia is more of a problem in Western civilization? What girls are at the greatest risk for developing anorexia? Why do you believe this is the case?

Essay Topic 3

How has adolescent culture changed from previous generations? What are the problems as you see them for the twenty-first century adolescent girls? Do you think they have changed from those of the 1990s? Why or why not?

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