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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 wholeness of the individual is associated with?
(a) Equilibrium and health.
(b) Totalitarianism.
(c) Positive psychology.
(d) The earth.

2. How does Erikson suggest men were able to end the adolescent process?
(a) Subordinate their childhood identities to a new identity.
(b) Get a job.
(c) Get married.
(d) Develop an adult identity.

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

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

5. What can reinforce the process of negative identity formation in terms of Erikson's stages of identity development?
(a) Weak ego.
(b) Negative parental reactions.
(c) Arrogance.
(d) Biology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What aspects of Freud's theory of development does a functional ego integrate?

2. What does George Bernard Shaw despise?

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

4. What does Erikson feel may have been lost to modernity?

5. What do youth recognize the need for during Erikson's stages of identity development?

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