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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the patient Mesmer took in Chapter 8?
(a) Miss Chatworth.
(b) Miss Duonet.
(c) Miss Paradis.
(d) Miss Sarah.

2. In Erickson's case in Chapter 6 which involved the boy's bed-wetting problem, Erickson suggested that if he didn't wet the bed for a month his parents were obligated to get him what?
(a) A kitten.
(b) A puppy.
(c) A bike.
(d) A new bed.

3. Chapter 9 deals with what aspect of life?
(a) Getting divorced.
(b) Getting married.
(c) Growing old.
(d) Having children.

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

5. Erickson at times uses his own what to facilitate the husband's willingness to meet the therapist and to experience some therapy?
(a) Response.
(b) Masculinity.
(c) Hypnosis.
(d) Coerciveness.

6. Erickson keyed into the young woman from the car accident's problems when after much probing, he learned that an elder sister had left home, married against the parents' wishes and was now ______.
(a) Hospitalized.
(b) Going to have a baby.
(c) Suicidal.
(d) In rehab.

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

8. The case studies in Chapter 6 show that there do not seem to be any __________ of Erickson's use of amnesia.
(a) Immediate effects.
(b) Detrimental affects.
(c) Irreversible effects.
(d) Pleasant effects.

9. 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.
(a) Quasi-compulsive.
(b) Destructive.
(c) Emotional.
(d) Demonstrative.

10. Chapter 7 deals with issues of what?
(a) Friendships.
(b) Old age and dying.
(c) Marriage and family dilemmas
(d) Childbirth.

11. 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) Medication.
(b) Hypnosis.
(c) Mental help.
(d) Surgery.

12. Haley begins Chapter 8 by explaining that the way therapy is conducted has progressed in a leap and that ____ signifies the change from recognizing that problems within a family are just that.
(a) Jung.
(b) Freud.
(c) Erickson.
(d) Mesmer.

13. The elderly man in Chapter 9 is first roused from nearly a full year in bed by being _______ by his therapist.
(a) Whispered to.
(b) Praised.
(c) Verbally tormented.
(d) Offered food.

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) Divorce.
(b) See a geneticist.
(c) Don't have children.
(d) Get an ultrasound.

15. 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.
(a) Physical support.
(b) Companionship.
(c) Needed control.
(d) Emotional support.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 7 includes examples of when one partner's ______ behavior has disturbed the sexual life of the couple.

2. Erickson is able to _____ the man into proving to himself and the others that he can in fact get up and is even able to make it to the car.

3. The use of hypnosis in Chapter 9 is used primarily to do what?

4. In order to heal the sore on a child's body in the example in Chapter 6, it was necessary for the boy's father to take over what?

5. Haley states in Chapter 8 that great dramas are enacted when the dynamic between the parents has grown ______ in any way on their relationships with the offspring.

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