Chapter 17 Final Check

How do you respond when your parents deny you permission to do something? For example, if you want to travel and work around the country for the summer but your parents say you’re too young, do you yell and demand that they stop curtailing your rights? Do you plan a(n) ______, vowing to sabotage their summer plans because they’ve ruined yours?

• reprisal

• rationale

• impasse

• flippant

• perception

Or do you explain the ______ behind your request, so that your parents will understand your reasoning?

• reprisal

• rationale

• impasse

• flippant

• perception

The way you behave when you and your parents reach a(n) _______ on an issue can have a big effect on how they view you.

• reprisal

• rationale

• impasse

• flippant

• perception

Sure, you could retort, “Fine, I’ll go buy a leash so you can really run my life.” But if you are consistently ______ like that, . . .

• reprisal

• rationale

• impasse

• flippant

• perception

. . . you’ll just strengthen their ______ of you as being too immature to be on your own.

• reprisal

• rationale

• impasse

• flippant

• perception

Also, if you are _______ in your begging, asking three hundred times a day, “But why won’t you let me travel alone?” you might elicit this response: “You may do some traveling alone right now—go to your room.”

• relentless

• congenial

• rapport

• prone

• prompt

Instead, approach your parents in a ______ way . . .

• relentless

• congenial

• rapport

• prone

• prompt

. . . and try to develop a strong, friendly (8) _ with them.

• relentless

• congenial

• rapport

• prone

• prompt

An amiable, respectful relationship will make them more _______ to see things your way.

• relentless

• congenial

• rapport

• prone

• prompt

Even if you can’t _______ them to change their minds about this summer’s plans, your chances of getting their support will be better the next time you want to try something new.

• relentless

• congenial

• rapport

• prone

• prompt