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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Erickson claims that when a husband and wife where _____ of each other, it was best to see them together.
(a) Insecure.
(b) Neglectful.
(c) Suspicious.
(d) Loving.

3. For those who glorify ______, older years may have a more difficult psychological impact.
(a) Youth culture.
(b) Babies.
(c) Early family life.
(d) Childhood.

4. 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) A decade.
(c) Two years.
(d) Twenty years.

5. Perhaps one case from Chapter 6 did not want to be a mother but had no recourse other than to plead a kind of insanity so that the others would take control from her, or she possibly was mentally ill. What was she labeled with?
(a) Schizophrenia.
(b) Epilepsy.
(c) Bipolar disorder.
(d) Borderline personality disorder.

6. Erickson allowed previous patients to visit him of their own accord, on a _____ level.
(a) Follow-up.
(b) Medical.
(c) Social.
(d) Prescribed.

7. The 19th-century method was to treat a patient in what way?
(a) On an individual basis.
(b) Within the hospital.
(c) With the family.
(d) By hypnosis.

8. Erickson worked to encourage a girl in Chapter 8 to voice her criticisms of her mother and re-work her perception of her father's behaviors, which included some incorrect perceptions regarding the parents' _______ .
(a) Overbearing-ness.
(b) Dominance.
(c) Sexual difficulties.
(d) Hospitalization.

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

10. The husband who threatens to kill his wife about the gender of their child is of what occupation?
(a) Banker.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Laborer.

11. 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) An educational concern.
(b) His fears of neglect.
(c) His fear of abandonment.
(d) His sexuality.

12. 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) Angry.
(b) Discontent.
(c) Content.
(d) Upset.

13. 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 parents.
(b) The family.
(c) The friends.
(d) The patient.

14. In the case where the husband has threatened to kill his wife unless she gives birth to a child of the gender he wants, Erickson recommends the couple do what?
(a) Don't have children.
(b) Divorce.
(c) Get an ultrasound.
(d) See a geneticist.

15. Erickson notes that long-term therapy of only one partner in a marriage makes the marriage what?
(a) Content.
(b) Strangled.
(c) Happy.
(d) Unnatural.

Short Answer Questions

1. Erickson notes in Chapter 8 that when you start defending "my rights," you become a what?

2. What occurrence either forces or allows other relatives, be it the father or extended family, a great chance to take care of the baby?

3. Haley writes in Chapter 8 that the most destructive parents are not those who treat their children badly but those who are what?

4. Haley observes that there are repercussions throughout the family system (meaning people of the families that led up to this union are affected by the turn of events) when what occurs?

5. A great part of the therapist's role is to supply _______ over one or more people in a temporary manner to facilitate a cure or other effective treatment of a problem.

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