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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Marriage & Family Dilemmas.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One case of Chapter 4 includes a man named Harold who asserts that he is homosexual and hates women. He is also what?
(a) Married with children.
(b) Wealthy and attractive.
(c) Financially poor and an idiot.
(d) Deaf and mute.

2. A prominent concern is a family entanglement in which Harold needs to alter the dynamic with himself and one of his siblings who is one member of what kind of couple?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Alcoholic.
(c) Dishonest.
(d) Abusive.

3. In one case in Chapter 5, there was competition between the mother and the ______ over mothering the new baby.
(a) Mother-in-law.
(b) Sister.
(c) Mother's mother.
(d) Father.

4. What did Erickson accuse the man with the headache of harboring in the end of Chapter 7?
(a) A 7-year-old's headache.
(b) A childhood resentment.
(c) A childish thought.
(d) A 10-year-old's headache.

5. In what technique does Erickson use trance to release people from deep-seated behavior patterns, some of which have been counter productive or relied upon to reduce fears?
(a) "Revision of nature".
(b) "Frustrating the problem".
(c) "Communicating in metaphor".
(d) "Encouraging a relapse".

Short Answer Questions

1. In a nonviolent case, Erickson often encourages _____ within a couple.

2. In some cases, Erickson offers patients the option to make more complete changes in a shorter time span. In these cases, he assures them that they can, but the greater the transformation, the greater the _________ associated with the changes that will be facilitated by hypnosis.

3. Once Erickson _____________, he then keeps out of that friendship so that it takes its own natural course.

4. Either Harold wasn't truly homosexual in the first place, but had other troubles with women, or was a bisexual who was turned on to women once what?

5. Erickson would use his position to effect a beneficial ______ that leaves the couple reoriented into their new and improved dynamic and empowers them to go back to leaving out the therapist.

(see the answer key)

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