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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Marriage and Its Consequences.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The amnesia seems to be for the purpose of helping the clients themselves to be able to feel as if he has not done what?
(a) Invaded them.
(b) Spoken to their relatives.
(c) Discovered their childhoods.
(d) Spoken to them.

2. Hypnosis is described as a special way of _______.
(a) Communicating.
(b) Administering help.
(c) Brain washing.
(d) Beaconing.

3. When the client's real need is _______, Erickson goes out of his way to actually artificially create relationships for his patients.
(a) Social contact.
(b) Sexual contact.
(c) Parenting.
(d) Friends.

4. Erickson writes of withholding and sharing information and of how he succeeds in curing a young woman of pain she experiences during ______.
(a) Marriage.
(b) Childbirth.
(c) Intercourse.
(d) Menstruation.

5. Under which heading in Chapter 2 does Haley explain that what occurs here is that couples are faced with dynamic challenges?
(a) "Premeditated Childbirth".
(b) "Childbirth and Dealing with the Young".
(c) "Extension of Family".
(d) "Marriage and its Consequences".

Short Answer Questions

1. Family stress is most severe when someone is _________ (in) the family.

2. Which heading in Chapter 1 has the most hypnotic focus?

3. Once he overcomes the severe effects of the poverty of his childhood, Harold manages to develop a new habit of __________.

4. Eventually, through a lengthy process including both success and failure, Erickson gets Harold to complete what?

5. There may be fears, insecurities and inadequacies involved, but Erickson is not so interested in these or in explaining all about the shortcomings to the client, but rather Erickson focuses on helping the client to work towards what?

(see the answer key)

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