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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Childbirth and Rearing the Young.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Harold succeeds in cultivating a friendship with an unintelligent ______ man who has been highly effective at making the best of who he is.
(a) Handicapped.
(b) Wealthy.
(c) Fatherly.
(d) Educated.

2. When Harold has succeeded in school, Erickson persuades him to drop the idea that he is somehow _____ minded.
(a) Powerfully.
(b) Intelligently.
(c) Strong.
(d) Feeble.

3. 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) "Encouraging a relapse".
(b) "Communicating in metaphor".
(c) "Frustrating the problem".
(d) "Revision of nature".

4. 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) Alcoholic.
(b) Dishonest.
(c) Abusive.
(d) All answers are correct.

5. Erickson's use of intentional forms of amnesia as part of the trance is done in order to _________ and to empower individuals to make certain changes.
(a) Record their hidden secrets.
(b) Distress the patients.
(c) Alleviate the distress of patients.
(d) Make massive changes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Perhaps one case from Chapter 6 did not want to be a mother but had no recourse other than to plead a kind of insanity so that the others would take control from her, or she possibly was mentally ill. What was she labeled with?

2. In the case of the child with the sore, Erickson took personal responsibility to mimic addressing what that should have been covered by the parents?

3. Once Erickson helped the family of the boy with the sore, it cured the boy of his festering sore and the _______ behavior that had accompanied it.

4. The dynamic between the parents of the child with the sore was affected because they paid attention to ______ in relation to the chores in a different way.

5. Haley writes of a case in Chapter 5 in which a new mother was so distraught that she was hospitalized; the trouble was that in some cases, the receipt of treatment is used by others in the greater familial context as what?

(see the answer key)

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