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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Womanhood and the Inner Space.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the discussion in Chapter 2, the process of the ego helps individuals maintain their personalities and what type of fashion?
(a) Coherent.
(b) Selflessly.
(c) Positive.
(d) Incoherent.

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

3. Because of an individual's tendency to define self based on history, what does Erikson think this self-based history leave little room for the individual to create?
(a) New understanding.
(b) New identity.
(c) New traditions.
(d) New support systems.

4. What dose Erikson say psychoanalysts' fail to recognize about the ego?
(a) It depends on the individual.
(b) It cannot exist without human social organization.
(c) It is based solely on environment.
(d) It can exist without human social organization.

5. What did Shaw care so much about being?
(a) Amoral.
(b) Smart.
(c) Moral.
(d) Happy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Shaw exposed to as a child?

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

4. What does Erikson suggest offers simplified perspectives in order to avoid confusion of societal beliefs and goals?

5. What are women isolated by during Erikson's stages of identity development?

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