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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 is one example that Erikson provides for the notion of "evil ego identity"?
(a) Self loathing.
(b) Ethnic stereotypes.
(c) Gender stereotypes.
(d) Confusion.

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

3. Erikson notes that James' youth was full of emotional strains in struggles for what?
(a) Love.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Sanity.
(d) Identity formation.

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

5. What does Erikson wish youth would search for?
(a) Self.
(b) Something not sanctioned by society.
(c) Truth based on society.
(d) Common ground with society.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Erikson in terms of active identity formation individual who now can say they know where they are going, what has occurred?

2. What does the success of identification during Erikson's stages of development depend on?

3. What often occurs when youth are isolated according to Erikson's theory of identity development?

4. According to the discussion in Chapter 2, the process of the ego helps individuals maintain their personalities and what type of fashion?

5. What term does Erikson use to describe the fluctuation of ego strength and high growth potential?

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