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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Erickson writes of withholding and sharing information and of how he succeeds in curing a young woman of pain she experiences during ______.
(a) Intercourse.
(b) Childbirth.
(c) Menstruation.
(d) Marriage.

2. Erickson's therapy includes and involves helping the _____ patients to overcome their fears surrounding dating issues.
(a) Child.
(b) Homosexual.
(c) Adult.
(d) Adolescent.

3. In Chapter 2, the author notes that among humans, the mating style appears to vary _____.
(a) Periodically.
(b) Innately.
(c) Culturally.
(d) According to society.

4. Erickson is truthful to the client. This includes acknowledging that the pain or other problem may what?
(a) Become a bigger problem.
(b) Never go away.
(c) Continue for some time.
(d) Involve the pain of others.

5. In which situation is it said that new way of finding their equilibrium as a couple is needed?
(a) During divorce.
(b) When parents grow old.
(c) When someone passes away.
(d) After childbirth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Haley writes that the majority of the young adults who the therapist meets with do want to ____.

2. Harold would finally happen into a heterosexual relationship with whom?

3. Haley explains that Erickson, in dealing with ______, does not attempt to change their fundamental nature and does not even try to confront the real problem directly.

4. When children have left home and can no longer "be used to ___________," the parents are often confronted with each other in a different way.

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?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Erickson's use of metaphor and relapse.

2. What is Erickson's approach to "family orientation"?

3. How long does the therapy process last working with Erickson?

4. What is Haley's description of "Middle Marriage Difficulties"?

5. What does Haley write about the institution of marriage in the beginning of Chapter 5?

6. What progress does Harold make educationally in his work with Erickson?

7. In what way does Erickson's therapy method sometimes step outside of the office?

8. When was hypnosis introduced to the psychiatric community and why?

9. What does Jay Haley remark about Erickson's contribution to the progression of psychotherapy in the beginning of the book?

10. How does Erickson address Harold's issues with women?

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