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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. According to Erikson, what action by youth may lead to dangerous behaviors?
(a) Doubting elders.
(b) Not seeking support during identity development.
(c) Trying to gain independence.
(d) Thinking they know everything.

2. How does Erikson think ideologies should be filled?
(a) By society.
(b) By the youth themselves.
(c) Intellectual cultivation.
(d) Technology.

3. According to Erikson, what does totalitarianism require of society?
(a) A sense of legitimacy of state power.
(b) A combination of identities.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Conformity.

4. Where does Erikson feel ego strength some from in youth?
(a) Parents.
(b) Community.
(c) Confirmation of individuality.
(d) Confirmation of conformity.

5. What two components within Erikson's theory are important for youth to base their identities on?
(a) Ideologies and the future.
(b) Morals and community structure.
(c) Childhood and ideologies.
(d) Future and childhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Shaw convinced himself he was?

2. How does Erikson feel adults eventually settle on an identity?

3. How is identity diffusion manifested during the adolescent stages of Erikson's theory of identity development?

4. Erikson notes that James' youth was full of emotional strains in struggles for what?

5. How does Erikson suggest men were able to end the adolescent process?

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