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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The author does not mention the issue of whether to ______ when he mentions the matter of marriage.
(a) Parent.
(b) Accept homosexuality.
(c) Live separately.
(d) Divorce.

3. When Erickson did work long-term with a patient, he would change up the _____ of the appointments.
(a) Frequency.
(b) Expectations.
(c) Duration.
(d) Meeting-place.

4. Erickson typically conducts therapy with the goal of keeping a couple together except for two types of case: one, if the couple feels the marriage was a mistake, and second, in the event that the marriage does what?
(a) Makes either of the members unhappy.
(b) Puts either or both members of it into danger.
(c) Leads to intense sexual insecurities.
(d) Leads to problems with children.

5. The therapist deals with each part of the couple _______, as a general rule.
(a) Separately.
(b) As a family unit.
(c) Together.
(d) Separately and together.

Short Answer Questions

1. There are numerous cases referred to in Chapter 6. One is about a sore that festered for how long?

2. After Harold has acquired better habits of dress, he begins to spontaneously seek ______ and to get it.

3. Hypnosis is described as a special way of _______.

4. Harold's experience with his first relationship was so good that he voluntarily reconsidered his own views and chose to do what?

5. 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.

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