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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, The Pain of Old Age.

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) Leave the nest.
(b) Be homosexual.
(c) Divorce.
(d) Mate for life.

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

3. One marital trouble that can occur was exemplified in Chapter 5 as the case of a young wife with a _____ hand.
(a) Itchy.
(b) Trembling.
(c) Numb.
(d) Blotchy.

4. The therapist's intent is to be what to the marriage and to each of the partners in it?
(a) Dominant.
(b) Sympathetic.
(c) Coercive.
(d) Apathetic.

5. Haley cites one of Erickson's cases in Chapter 6 where the mother who sought treatment was ultimately what?
(a) Divorced.
(b) Faced with adoption.
(c) Imprisoned.
(d) Left out.

Short Answer Questions

1. The elderly man in Chapter 9 is first roused from nearly a full year in bed by being _______ by his therapist.

2. One extreme example of dependency in Chapter 8 is when a young woman goes off to college and her parents build an addition to the house so she can live there while she is an adult, including when?

3. Erickson's use of intentional forms of amnesia as part of the trance is done in order to _________ and to empower individuals to make certain changes.

4. Haley notes in Chapter 8 that people may or may not recognize that they need to be _______ their own children.

5. Under which heading in Chapter 2 does Haley explain that what occurs here is that couples are faced with dynamic challenges?

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