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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the client's real need is _______, Erickson goes out of his way to actually artificially create relationships for his patients.
(a) Sexual contact.
(b) Social contact.
(c) Friends.
(d) Parenting.

2. 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) Wealthy and attractive.
(d) Married with children.

3. After Harold has acquired better habits of dress, he begins to spontaneously seek ______ and to get it.
(a) Education.
(b) Better work.
(c) Boyfriends.
(d) Girlfriends.

4. A fear of women that had been troubling Erickson's client in Chapter 3 was overcome but Erickson never even discussed that fear with this client, as the problem was solved through his what?
(a) Direct approach.
(b) Quitting smoking.
(c) Hypnosis.
(d) Indirect approach.

5. Therapy is meant to facilitate the transition of a person from the situation of being a child into being what?
(a) A codependent adult.
(b) An independent adult.
(c) None of the answers is correct.
(d) A functioning adult.

6. The one condition on which Erickson allows couples to fight was that they genuinely seek to what?
(a) Resolve the disagreement in a conclusive and definitive manner.
(b) Not speak to the therapist as a third party.
(c) Not shout.
(d) Not involve their children in their disputes.

7. Erickson mentions that in cases where the woman won't let the man talk, as the therapist, he will either get her to keep her mouth shut and listen or will do what?
(a) No longer see the couple.
(b) Make her leave.
(c) Talk to the woman alone.
(d) Cause an argument.

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

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

10. Which technique is also part of intentional hypnotic conditioning (here it is observed that uniformly siding with one family member and the creating of factions by the therapist is discouraged)?
(a) "Avoiding Self-Exploration".
(b) "Amnesia and Control of Information".
(c) "Encouraging Resistance".
(d) "Emphasizing the Positive".

11. Haley writes of one case in which a woman was directly threatened with death by her husband over what?
(a) Her spending.
(b) The gender of their baby.
(c) Her infidelity.
(d) Her family.

12. 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) "Providing a Worse Alternative".
(c) "Emphasizing the Positive".
(d) "Encouraging Resistance".

13. In a nonviolent case, Erickson often encourages _____ within a couple.
(a) Dissent.
(b) Letter-writing.
(c) None of the answers is correct.
(d) Spying.

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

15. In what technique does Erickson use trance to release people from deep-seated behavior patterns, some of which have been counter productive or relied upon to reduce fears?
(a) "Frustrating the problem".
(b) "Encouraging a relapse".
(c) "Revision of nature".
(d) "Communicating in metaphor".

Short Answer Questions

1. Voluntary and involuntary behavior is discussed to show how therapeutic techniques transform an individual into being able to perform certain ______.

2. In one example in Chapter 3, a client's intense fear is eventually overcome by Erickson's encouragement and relating to the patient's _____.

3. Which heading in Chapter 1 involves subjective aspects of time?

4. Family stress is most severe when someone is _________ (in) the family.

5. 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?

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