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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. Erickson is truthful to the client. This includes acknowledging that the pain or other problem may what?
(a) Involve the pain of others.
(b) Never go away.
(c) Continue for some time.
(d) Become a bigger problem.

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

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

4. 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.
(a) Emotional.
(b) Destructive.
(c) Quasi-compulsive.
(d) Demonstrative.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Haley writes of one case in which a woman was directly threatened with death by her husband over what?

2. In Chapter 5, Haley writes about a case in which a wealthy woman had to be tranced into more full awareness of her feelings of acceptance during her childhood and how this set a healthy foundation for her to feel confident in her ability to do what?

3. It is stated in In Chapter 2 that some, but not all, will naturally ________; others will not. This evidently affects the culture.

4. 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?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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