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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Race and Wider Identity.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Freud suggest a fearless freedom of thinking is?
(a) Negative identity.
(b) Positive identity.
(c) Totalitarianism.
(d) Unattainable.

3. During Erikson's final stage of development, individuals having a sense of Generativity may engage in what type of activities?
(a) Listlessness.
(b) Finding a new job.
(c) Leading future generations to succeed.
(d) Planing for the future.

4. How is Erikson's theory of identity consciousness overcome?
(a) Through self actualization.
(b) When a person gives up searching for identity.
(c) When a sense of identity is achieved.
(d) We are always conscious of our identity.

5. Erikson states that we deal with the process located in the core of the individual and where else?
(a) The core of his communal culture.
(b) Within himself.
(c) Among his family.
(d) In his past.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do environmental counterweights of identity help explain in terms of Freud's theory of identity?

2. What does Erikson state that the self-concept of self esteem is tied to?

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

4. Considering Freud's elements of the mind, what are the counterweights of the ego?

5. What do the elements of the self produce in light of Erikson's theory of identity development?

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