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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. Haley writes of one case in which a woman was directly threatened with death by her husband over what?
(a) Her spending.
(b) Her family.
(c) The gender of their baby.
(d) Her infidelity.

2. 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?
(a) Schizophrenia.
(b) Borderline personality disorder.
(c) Epilepsy.
(d) Bipolar disorder.

3. Erickson was responsible for the development and introduction into therapies of _____.
(a) "Encouraging Resistance".
(b) "Strategic Therapy".
(c) "Providing a Worse Alternative".
(d) "Family orientation".

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

5. Which title from Chapter 1 shows how indirect communication can be better therapy in some cases?
(a) "Encouraging Resistance".
(b) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(c) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".
(d) "Causing Change by Communicating in Metaphor".

Short Answer Questions

1. Erickson was able to encourage an "Asthmatic Mama's boy" out of the role of sickly and meek and out into the realm of what?

2. Erickson addresses Harold's anxieties and hatred about women in a simple way. He ______ a relationship with a woman who teaches him.

3. Which heading in Chapter 1 cultivates a response until a goal is reached?

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

5. Once Erickson _____________, he then keeps out of that friendship so that it takes its own natural course.

(see the answer key)

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