Which of the following statements best describes the author's point of view on how parents should react to their children's crushes?A. Parents should discourage crushes, especially celebrity crushes and risky identity crushes.B. Parents should encourage crushes, respect the child's boundaries, and not monitor in any way the adolescent.C. Parents should inform their children early on that crushes aren't often serious—even if it feels like it—so that the adolescent will be able to face possible rejection more easily.D. Parents should support their children's feelings, but be aware of the possible risks or fallout that come with crushes.

How does the concept of "idealization" contribute to the author's key argument regarding crushes?A. The author argues that most crushes are idealized and therefore cannot be considered real love.B. The author argues that crushes, romantic or identity, involve the projection of idealized traits that a person values and desires onto another person (i.e. the crush).C. Idealized celebrities and celebrity crushes can give teenagers an unrealistic understanding of individuals; this makes it more difficult for them to accept flaws.D. Idealized relationships in popular media encourage adolescents and teenagers to seek out romance, causing them to have more frequent crushes.

PART B: Which of the following quotes best supports the answer to Part A?A. "After all, it is an early approximation of love. While it lasts it is seriously held, so it should be seriously treated." (Paragraph 2)B. "There is a great outbreak of romantic crushes and gossip about them ("Guess who likes who?") in middle school." (Paragraph 4)C. "…early adolescence and the separation from childhood has caused young people to want to act more grown up, and sexual maturity from puberty has motivated them to act in more young manly and young womanly ways." (Paragraph 4)D. "Most romantic crushes don't last very long because once the object of the crush becomes better known, magic of the other person soon wear off and the ideal falls away." (Paragraph 10)

Which statement best expresses a central theme of the story?A. Children can feel suffocated by parents and need to assert their independence.B. Parents understand what their children want and should make all the decisions.C. Parents want their children to be successful even if the child does not want to be.D. Children want to be protected by their parents and feel isolated when they are not.

Direction: Read the passage given below and answer the following questions.Some parents urge their children to be the best in everything they do. They push them to be the best athlete, and the best scholar, and the best musician, and so on. Other parents urge their children to pursue whatever they are best at, whether it be athletics, academics or music. Some parents push their children to try their best. Still, others try hard not to push their children to be the best or even to try to be their best, because they worry about the psychological damage that such messages might cause. But, most parents love their children, and however they raise them, they are trying the best they can on their behalf. After all, most parents genuinely want what is best for their children – they have different conceptions of what that requires.In seeking what is best for their children, most parents are implicitly buying into what has been the dominant view of individual rationality, at least in the West, since the time of the Greeks. On this conception, what it is to be rational is to act so as to maximize the overall quality of one’s life over the course of one’s life – that is, a rational agent chooses whatever options will make her life, as a whole, go as well as possible. The United States Army’s advertising slogan ‘Be All You Can Be’ taps into this picture of what it is for an individual agent to be rational.Built into the standard conception of rationality are two fundamental assumptions. The first is that there is a best way for any life to be. The second is a more technical assumption – I’ll call it the Axiom of Transitivity for Better Than – which holds that for any three choices, if the first option is better than the second, and the second option is better than the third, then the first option must be better than the third.‘The Axiom of Transitivity for Better Than’ generates a decision procedure for identifying the best of any finite set of options. Compare the two at a time. If the first is better, throw the second out. Then compare the third with the first. If the third is better, throw the first out. Proceed in this way, always choosing the best of each set of two alternatives. On this basis, if the Axiom of Transitivity for Better Than is true, we can determine the best of any finite set of n options, on the basis of n-1 pairwise comparisons.Many people have challenged the first assumption in one of four ways. Some have pointed out that some options might be equally good, so there is no single best option. Others have suggested that some alternatives might be only roughly comparable, or on a par. On this view, two alternatives could be in the same ballpark, say the genius of Einstein or Mozart, or a legal career versus an academic career, without one being better than the other, or their being exactly equally good. Still, others have suggested that in some rare cases two alternatives can be completely incomparable. And finally, some have noted that among an infinite number of possibilities, there might be no best one, just as there is no largest number in the infinite sequence 1, 2, 3, 4, …HideWhat is the author’s tone when he is talking about how parents behave in the first two paragraphs?FactualIronicalCriticalSatirical

When discussing teenage relationships, what is the goal of understanding both acceptable and unacceptable expressions of attraction? Select one:a.To discourage all forms of relationships b.To encourage manipulative behavior c.To foster empathy and healthy interactions among teenagers d.To create unrealistic expectations