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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Foundations in Observation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the process of identity formation began?
(a) As a toddler.
(b) With mother and baby.
(c) As a young adult.
(d) As an adolescent.

2. In Chapter 2, Foundations and Observation, during his discussion on group identity, what group of people does Erikson observe group changes to make his point?
(a) Middle class Whites.
(b) Blacks.
(c) The Aztec Indians.
(d) The Sioux Indians.

3. What does Freud suggest a fearless freedom of thinking is?
(a) Positive identity.
(b) Totalitarianism.
(c) Negative identity.
(d) Unattainable.

4. What are two characteristics Erikson applies to the task of the ego in order to maintain and organize its existence?
(a) Straightforward and never-ending.
(b) Weak and meaningless.
(c) Ceaseless and essential.
(d) Demanding and authoritative.

5. 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 identity.
(b) New support systems.
(c) New understanding.
(d) New traditions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Erikson state youth need so they do not languish in a strictly episodical conscious expansion?

2. In discussing Freud's views on group identity, what does Erikson state is a major cause in identity becoming frustrating and disintegrated?

3. What term does Erikson use to mean the factor that serves to integrate a person toward a common societal goal?

4. Erikson states that we deal with the process located in the core of the individual and where else?

5. What does it mean when the author states, "to review the concept of identity"?

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