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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 suggest society's child training systems does for the uniqueness of society?
(a) Strengthen it.
(b) Provide meaning.
(c) Increase standard of living.
(d) Preserve it.

2. What does it mean when the author states, "to review the concept of identity"?
(a) Write an outline.
(b) Sketch its history.
(c) Give a lecture.
(d) Disprove identity.

3. 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?
(a) They form distinct identities.
(b) They may become isolated.
(c) Nothing.
(d) They can not form their identities.

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

5. What do environmental counterweights of identity help explain in terms of Freud's theory of identity?
(a) Inner world of the ego.
(b) Society.
(c) Self.
(d) Outer world of the ego.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the process of meeting fidelity do for Erikson's theory of youth identity?

2. According to Erikson, in his review and observations of changes in culture, what does he suggest will become common values among today's youth?

3. What does Erikson feel the biological process of psychoanalysis has become?

4. According to Erikson, what action by youth may lead to dangerous behaviors?

5. What does Erikson resist characterizing modern youth as?

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