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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. Which heading in Chapter 1 is shown to help work out residual resistance to desirable changes?
(a) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(b) "Encouraging a Relapse".
(c) "Encouraging Resistance".
(d) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".

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

3. The first heading of Chapter 1 is titled _____________; wherein, the individual in therapy is re-educated to view resistance as a form of cooperation in its own right.
(a) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".
(b) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(c) "Providing a Worse Alternative".
(d) "Encouraging Resistance".

4. 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) Spoken to their relatives.
(b) Discovered their childhoods.
(c) Spoken to them.
(d) Invaded them.

5. One case in Chapter 6 was about how the therapist helped a mother to re-establish her authority with her son. How old was the child?
(a) Eight.
(b) Fourteen.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Six.

Short Answer Questions

1. Erickson allowed previous patients to visit him of their own accord, on a _____ level.

2. The challenge of the woman with the trembling hand in Chapter 5 was that the wife wanted her husband to do what?

3. In Chapter 2, the author notes that among humans, the mating style appears to vary _____.

4. It stated in Chapter 7 that Erickson recognized that normally the problem was indicative not only of a trouble with _____ but also in social conditions and other influences.

5. After Erickson's client secured the job in Chapter 3, the therapist asked for details about how corrections were made when the client revealed that there had been _____.

(see the answer key)

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