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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. It is stated in In Chapter 2 that some, but not all, will naturally ________; others will not. This evidently affects the culture.
(a) Mate for life.
(b) Divorce.
(c) Leave the nest.
(d) Be homosexual.

2. The therapist prescribes a specific course of action with the boy with behavioral problems in Chapter 6. With his direction and his assurance that her son is not being put in danger from doing so, the mother spends an entire day doing what?
(a) Leaving her son in a locked closet.
(b) Yelling at her son.
(c) Sitting on her son.
(d) Spanking her son.

3. In most of the examples referred to in Chapter 3, success in dating leads not only into marriage, but also into ____.
(a) Career.
(b) Divorce.
(c) Life.
(d) Parenting.

4. Haley reports that power struggles about who is _____ in a marriage are quite normal during the early years.
(a) Dominant.
(b) Unhappy.
(c) Anxious.
(d) Submissive.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The child who had the festering sore improved in _____ and the family's situation had found its new equilibrium.

2. Haley points out that Erickson had suffered from _____ twice and had been debilitated by it/them.

3. One marital trouble that can occur was exemplified in Chapter 5 as the case of a young wife with a _____ hand.

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?

5. When the post-partum mother does receive therapy, the reasons for why she is so upset about becoming a mother are discussed and where possible her _____.

(see the answer key)

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