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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which heading in Chapter 1 involves subjective aspects of time?
(a) "Encouraging Resistance".
(b) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".
(c) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(d) "The Use of Space and Position".

2. The need to help the growing youths integrate into the community life without insufficient or excessive ________ is important throughout and continues when people have become parents.
(a) Over-protection.
(b) Familial involvement.
(c) Dependence.
(d) Babying.

3. Milton Erickson came from the American Midwest and received the majority of his education and preliminary work experience in Wisconsin and _____.
(a) Wisconsin.
(b) Portland.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Colorado.

4. Erickson writes of withholding and sharing information and of how he succeeds in curing a young woman of pain she experiences during ______.
(a) Menstruation.
(b) Intercourse.
(c) Childbirth.
(d) Marriage.

5. Haley states in Chapter 2 that a pattern involving a built-in need for making changes and adjustments is part of what?
(a) The phase of adolescence.
(b) The phase of old age.
(c) The phase of marriage.
(d) The phase of bearing children.

6. In Chapter 2, the author notes that among humans, the mating style appears to vary _____.
(a) According to society.
(b) Periodically.
(c) Innately.
(d) Culturally.

7. 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?
(a) Discussing their family.
(b) Unveiling their past.
(c) Releasing pent-up emotions.
(d) Success in other areas of life.

8. Which technique is rooted in two ideas: that at least many unconscious motives are beneficial and that positive reinforcement is most effective in influencing behavior?
(a) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(b) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".
(c) "Encouraging Resistance".
(d) "Seeding Ideas".

9. Often enough, if the woman did not have a good experience with what from the beginning would she seek an annulment of the marriage?
(a) With sex.
(b) With romance.
(c) With children.
(d) With respect.

10. Harold would finally happen into a heterosexual relationship with whom?
(a) His best friend.
(b) His sister's friend.
(c) An older woman neighbor.
(d) The woman Erickson introduced him to.

11. One case of Chapter 4 includes a man named Harold who asserts that he is homosexual and hates women. He is also what?
(a) Married with children.
(b) Deaf and mute.
(c) Financially poor and an idiot.
(d) Wealthy and attractive.

12. Once he overcomes the severe effects of the poverty of his childhood, Harold manages to develop a new habit of __________.
(a) Dressing himself well.
(b) Going to nice dinners.
(c) Asking guests to his house.
(d) Working out.

13. During the 1950s, there was still debate about what in psychotherapy?
(a) How to administer medications.
(b) How to facilitate desirable change in patients.
(c) How to approach brain chemistry changes.
(d) How to deal with schizophrenia.

14. Under which heading in Chapter 2 does Haley explain that therapy must take into account the reality of how factors outside the marriage and beyond the individual partners have an affect upon what happens and may contain suggestions and warnings about the way to navigate a set of solutions?
(a) "Marriage and its Consequences".
(b) "Growing Old Gracefully".
(c) "Middle Marriage Difficulties".
(d) "The Struggle of Marriages".

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When children have left home and can no longer "be used to ___________," the parents are often confronted with each other in a different way.

2. When Erickson conducts long-term therapy, he does not do it as extensive and lengthy contact with meetings once each week for years. Instead, he does what?

3. Erickson was responsible for the development and introduction into therapies of _____.

4. Addressing their fears and insecurities while helping them to make some needed _______ are all part of the therapy for those who want this.

5. Which heading in Chapter 1 is shown to help work out residual resistance to desirable changes?

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