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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 does totalitarianism require of society?
(a) A sense of legitimacy of state power.
(b) Conformity.
(c) A combination of identities.
(d) Nothing.

2. According to Erikson in terms of active identity formation individual who now can say they know where they are going, what has occurred?
(a) Identity completion.
(b) Psychological superiority.
(c) Psychosocial well-being.
(d) Wisdom.

3. Why does Erikson state that ideologies have been given a bad name?
(a) They have no baring on identity.
(b) They are open to interpretation.
(c) Because they are only a set of principles.
(d) They are false.

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

5. What term does Erikson use to describe the fluctuation of ego strength and high growth potential?
(a) Ego crisis.
(b) Normative crisis.
(c) Human crisis.
(d) Identity crisis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do many youth move back and forth between in terms of dysfunctional modes of Erikson's theory of identity development?

2. Where does Erikson feel ego strength some from in youth?

3. What can reinforce the process of negative identity formation in terms of Erikson's stages of identity development?

4. What does Erikson suggest wholeness of the individual is associated with?

5. What do youth try to balance while going through Erikson's stages of identity development?

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