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

2. In one example in Chapter 8, a girl's _______ needed improvement, and she needed to lose a lot of weight.
(a) Sense of style.
(b) Social life.
(c) Body image.
(d) Family life.

3. 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.

4. The use of hypnosis in Chapter 9 is used primarily to do what?
(a) Alleviate pain.
(b) Overcome addictions.
(c) End grief.
(d) Assist childbirth.

5. Erickson believes that normally, the problem extends beyond the substance abuser and what is needed is actually a change of what?
(a) Circumstances.
(b) Habituated behavior.
(c) Surroundings.
(d) Friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Erickson claims that when a husband and wife where _____ of each other, it was best to see them together.

3. 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?

4. For those who glorify ______, older years may have a more difficult psychological impact.

5. 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.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Erickson work to help an elderly man walk in Chapter 9?

2. Describe the case in Chapter 6 in which the mother is ultimately left out following post-partum depression.

3. In what ways does Erickson see patients he no longer counseled?

4. Describe Haley's point of view in writing this book.

5. What does Haley write of dominance in marriage?

6. What is the standard method Erickson has for accepting clients?

7. How do Erickson's methods differ than those of the 19th century?

8. In the ending of the book, why does the Prussian man's wife contact Erickson?

9. What does Erickson say regarding becoming grandparents in the life cycle?

10. With the daughter who is in the accident and whose parents are obsessive, what does Erickson discover?

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