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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Toward Contemporary Issues, Youth.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Erikson feel may have been lost to modernity?
(a) Cosmic wholeness.
(b) Self-preservation.
(c) Ideologies.
(d) Self-identity.

2. What did Shaw care so much about being?
(a) Happy.
(b) Smart.
(c) Moral.
(d) Amoral.

3. In Chapter 2, Foundations and Observation, during his discussion on group identity, what group of people does Erikson observe group changes to make his point?
(a) The Aztec Indians.
(b) Blacks.
(c) Middle class Whites.
(d) The Sioux Indians.

4. What does Erikson wish youth would search for?
(a) Truth based on society.
(b) Common ground with society.
(c) Self.
(d) Something not sanctioned by society.

5. As noted in Chapter 2, how can false or inaccurate ego identity formations be corrected after being developed by parents in terms of group identity development?
(a) Through psychotherapy.
(b) By immersion.
(c) They cannot be corrected.
(d) By reworking associations.

Short Answer Questions

1. Throughout the stages of Erikson's theory of identity development, what happens if youth do not take advantage of the wisdom elders have to share?

2. What example does Erikson use in Foundations of Observation to clarify the disintegration of ego synthesis?

3. According to Erikson in Chapter 2, what occurs when the ego combines elements that result in an inability to form a positive self-image?

4. In the early 20th century, totalitarian disposition is best understood as what?

5. What is one example that Erikson provides for the notion of "evil ego identity"?

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