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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Womanhood and the Inner Space.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are two characteristics of women that Erikson presents in Chapter 7?
(a) Are prone to disease and love longer.
(b) Are emotional and indecisive.
(c) Live longer and are tougher.
(d) Live shorter and are weaker.

2. How are Erikson's ideologies of youth fulfilled?
(a) By society.
(b) Intellectual cultivation.
(c) Technology.
(d) By the youth themselves.

3. What term does Erikson use to describe the fluctuation of ego strength and high growth potential?
(a) Normative crisis.
(b) Ego crisis.
(c) Human crisis.
(d) Identity crisis.

4. What are women isolated by during Erikson's stages of identity development?
(a) Their inner productive space.
(b) Their outer productive space.
(c) Their fathers.
(d) Their mothers.

5. As discussed in Chapter 1, what first lead to the scientific mythology of the mind?
(a) Interest in technology.
(b) Understanding of neurons.
(c) The mentally ill.
(d) The newness of man's self awareness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Erikson feel one must explore in a discussion of women that may block meaningful discussion?

2. As discussed by Erikson in Chapter 2, what occurs when a system either biological or social malfunctions?

3. When does Erikson feel individuals develop trust?

4. When does the normative crisis of identity formation occur?

5. Considering Erikson's theory of groups identity development, what type of group demands does ego identity help balance?

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