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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One case in Chapter 6 was about how the therapist helped a mother to re-establish her authority with her son. How old was the child?
(a) Eight.
(b) Fourteen.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Six.

2. In the case of the child with the sore, Erickson took personal responsibility to mimic addressing what that should have been covered by the parents?
(a) His fear of abandonment.
(b) His sexuality.
(c) His fears of neglect.
(d) An educational concern.

3. What is often an integral part of Erickson's treatment plan?
(a) Revision.
(b) Physical exercise.
(c) Hypnosis.
(d) Childhood memory.

4. The child who had the festering sore improved in _____ and the family's situation had found its new equilibrium.
(a) Math.
(b) Spelling.
(c) Reading.
(d) Science.

5. The purpose of the therapeutic interventions in Chapter 7 are to provide some _______ regarding the entire situation.
(a) Scientific perspective.
(b) Rational thought.
(c) Third-party objectivity.
(d) Basic laws.

6. Where was the man from whom Erickson helped to walk in Chapter 9?
(a) France.
(b) India.
(c) Prussia.
(d) Russia.

7. 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?
(a) Six years.
(b) Two years.
(c) Twenty years.
(d) A decade.

8. Erickson cites examples of a couple that ceased to have an alcohol problem when they did what on weekends?
(a) Went shopping.
(b) Went to restaurants.
(c) Went camping.
(d) Went driving.

9. What is the name of the man whom Erickson treats in Chapter 8 who had lost 80 lbs. in 6 months?
(a) Sean.
(b) Herbert.
(c) Steven.
(d) Harold.

10. Attendance at therapy permits Erickson to instruct the couple through an intervention how to enable them to do what?
(a) Understand each other.
(b) Understand their feelings.
(c) Make needed changes.
(d) Understand their past.

11. Erickson is _____ if a husband goes so far as to show up to set the therapist straight on some ways that the therapist has been wrong.
(a) Upset.
(b) Discontent.
(c) Content.
(d) Angry.

12. 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.
(a) The friends.
(b) The patient.
(c) The family.
(d) The parents.

13. Part of Erickson's method is not to ________. This is described as being on the service of truth and unity even though it may sound artificial. He does this consistently as a rule of thumb.
(a) See one patient solely.
(b) Uniformly side with the same family member.
(c) See the entire family.
(d) Tell the immediate truth.

14. For people who have a healthy and integrated sense of every stage of life, are surrounded by friends, and well enough ____, the final phase of life can be quite pleasurable and go on for decades.
(a) Acclimated.
(b) Funded.
(c) Supported.
(d) Adjusted.

15. In the example of the woman in the car accident in Chapter 8, the therapist was not even able to apply _____ that would actually alleviate the young woman's chronic pain.
(a) Hypnosis.
(b) Surgery.
(c) Medication.
(d) Mental help.

Short Answer Questions

1. In some cases in Chapter 8, one or more parents would interfere or remove the patient from therapy once what?

2. In one example in Chapter 8, Erickson had to work with the parents on their dynamic, including extreme ______ tensions, while at the same time serving as the daughter's therapist.

3. Erickson gently refuses to help the man who had the stroke again in Chapter 9, claiming that even though it worked before, her husband is probably _____for his therapy to be effective.

4. What did Erickson accuse the man with the headache of harboring in the end of Chapter 7?

5. Once Erickson helped the family of the boy with the sore, it cured the boy of his festering sore and the _______ behavior that had accompanied it.

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