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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 has the most hypnotic focus?
(a) "Encouraging Resistance".
(b) "Seeding Ideas".
(c) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(d) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".

2. Harold succeeds in cultivating a friendship with an unintelligent ______ man who has been highly effective at making the best of who he is.
(a) Wealthy.
(b) Fatherly.
(c) Educated.
(d) Handicapped.

3. 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 romance.
(b) With sex.
(c) With respect.
(d) With children.

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

5. In one case in Chapter 5, there was competition between the mother and the ______ over mothering the new baby.
(a) Mother-in-law.
(b) Father.
(c) Mother's mother.
(d) Sister.

6. 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.

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

8. 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?
(a) Opening a small business.
(b) Working in construction.
(c) Working in law.
(d) Working in banking.

9. In Chapter 5, Haley writes about a case in which a wealthy woman had to be tranced into more full awareness of her feelings of acceptance during her childhood and how this set a healthy foundation for her to feel confident in her ability to do what?
(a) Speak to her husband about insecurity.
(b) Have sexual intercourse.
(c) Be a good mother.
(d) Be a good wife.

10. One of the most prominent facts about Chapter 5 is that what early in a marriage are a common and readily treatable problem?
(a) Sexual difficulties.
(b) Dominance difficulties.
(c) Financial worries.
(d) Compatibility issues.

11. Under which heading of Chapter 2 does Haley state that children develop their own roles within families and parents face serious changes when they leave?
(a) "Retirement and Old Age".
(b) "Leaving the Nest".
(c) "Weaning Parents From Children".
(d) "Breaking Apron Springs".

12. 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?
(a) Varies the duration of appointments.
(b) Has sessions outside his office.
(c) Varies the frequency of appointments.
(d) Has telephone sessions.

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

14. 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.
(a) Make massive changes.
(b) Distress the patients.
(c) Record their hidden secrets.
(d) Alleviate the distress of patients.

15. 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) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".
(b) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(c) "Seeding Ideas".
(d) "Encouraging Resistance".

Short Answer Questions

1. Where additional education is needed, Erickson recommends it; for instance, _________ can educate girls whose mothers or other older women did not properly train in make up or fashion.

2. Which title from Chapter 1 is also used for negative reinforcement and as a means to redirect patients?

3. Haley points out that Erickson had suffered from _____ twice and had been debilitated by it/them.

4. Erickson's type of reinforcement in the example in Chapter 3 was incredibly effective and the _____ fell from the forefront into the background of the client's life.

5. Either Harold wasn't truly homosexual in the first place, but had other troubles with women, or was a bisexual who was turned on to women once what?

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