ID from your email receipt/confirmation: (Located on the subject line) Full Name: Email Address: The narcissistic character is defined as having all of the following characteristics: a. an inflated sense of self-importance. b. fantasies of unlimited success. c. a need to be looked at and admired. True False In the adult, health means, among other things, recognizing that although you are not perfect, you are still worthy of love. True False A narcissist attempts to define his/her childrens’ reality. True False In a home where the narcissistic parent was sadistic, and his/her child was the victim, the child may emulate the sadistic role. True False The child part of the adult mind refuses to surrender the wish to win the love of the internalized narcissistic parent. True False When the parent is a narcissist, most of the child’s natural behaviors are met with approval. True False In the chapter concerning John, the only moment of tenderness he recalled from his father, occurred after he (John) was significantly beaten. True False Early experience with a narcissistic parent, particularly one of the opposite sex, can lead to choosing similar types to love. For example, if a parent forgot appointments and holidays, the child – as an adult – chooses a partner with similar types of forgetful behavior. True False In the chapter concerning Delores, there was an obvious connection (in Delores’s mind) between her relationships with violent men and her past with a violent father. True False A child of a narcissistic parent presumes the parent’s intentions are good. True False A child of a narcissistic parent develops a powerful negative introject. This means that the child develops an inner representation of the rejection parent. True False Even for the child of a narcissist, love is never in short supply. True False In the chapter concerning Victoria, it states that the center of her existence was food. True False In the chapter concerning Nick, the author states that Nick has no respect for any friendships. True False Nick’s overall apathy and numbness have been converted into depression. True False A child of a narcissist is frequently wed to the notion that he or she must be right and the other wrong. True False The true narcissist lives in grandiose isolation and manipulates rather than experience his/her dependency on other people. True False Children of narcissists are subjected to parental abuse that they come to associate with hate. True False In the chapter regarding Marie, it is stated that her overweight protects her from having an experience of what life could offer if she were to accept herself. True False No children of narcissists act as badly as their parents say they do. True False Addiction is a common response to being the child of a narcissist. True False Sometimes certain experiences are needed to show children of narcissistic parents what they (the children) lack. Travel is outstanding because it teaches about how people can live in non-narcissistic ways. True False Children of narcissistic parents become themselves by emerging from their parents’ need for them (the children) to be a certain way – resulting in developing a point of view independent of the one held by their parents. True False