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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. The presence of a child or children creates a variant of the _____, which only grows in complexity with the advent of additional children.
(a) "Love triangle".
(b) "Bridge of Connection".
(c) "Building blocks".
(d) "Family circle".

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?
(a) After college.
(b) After they've died.
(c) After marriage.
(d) After she's disowned them.

3. The parents in one example in Chapter 8 were so competitive, that one of the parents had spent a week in the same town where the daughter lived for the sole purpose of helping the daughter do what?
(a) Do laundry.
(b) Get to therapy.
(c) Do her homework.
(d) Call home.

4. Erickson notes in Chapter 8 that when you start defending "my rights," you become a what?
(a) Confidant.
(b) Ally.
(c) Patient.
(d) Friend.

5. Erickson in the 20th century insists on addressing the _______ and asserts the right to include other individuals who are part of the trouble.
(a) History of the patient.
(b) Childhood difficulties.
(c) Patient's dream life.
(d) Actual problem.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, Haley shows how Erickson applied therapy when the challenge was to help new parents over into the ______ of being parents.

2. Erickson keyed into the young woman from the car accident's problems when after much probing, he learned that an elder sister had left home, married against the parents' wishes and was now ______.

3. 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.

4. There may be fears, insecurities and inadequacies involved, but Erickson is not so interested in these or in explaining all about the shortcomings to the client, but rather Erickson focuses on helping the client to work towards what?

5. The book ends with the wife of the man who had a stroke contacting Erickson after how long, with a request for a new set of therapeutic treatments?

(see the answer key)

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