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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. In Chapter 2, the author notes that among humans, the mating style appears to vary _____.
(a) According to society.
(b) Culturally.
(c) Periodically.
(d) Innately.

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

3. Haley states in Chapter 2 that a pattern involving a built-in need for making changes and adjustments is part of what?
(a) The phase of marriage.
(b) The phase of bearing children.
(c) The phase of adolescence.
(d) The phase of old age.

4. Erickson mentions that in cases where the woman won't let the man talk, as the therapist, he will either get her to keep her mouth shut and listen or will do what?
(a) Make her leave.
(b) No longer see the couple.
(c) Cause an argument.
(d) Talk to the woman alone.

5. Often enough, if the woman did not have a good experience with what from the beginning would she seek an annulment of the marriage?
(a) With sex.
(b) With children.
(c) With respect.
(d) With romance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under which heading of Chapter 2 does Haley state that children develop their own roles within families and parents face serious changes when they leave?

2. Erickson writes of withholding and sharing information and of how he succeeds in curing a young woman of pain she experiences during ______.

3. It states in Chapter 2 that therapists often discover that habituated communication problems and other issues, including the involvement of _____, are all highly relevant to the families at this juncture.

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

5. A fear of women that had been troubling Erickson's client in Chapter 3 was overcome but Erickson never even discussed that fear with this client, as the problem was solved through his what?

(see the answer key)

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