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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. Erikson states that we deal with the process located in the core of the individual and where else?
(a) In his past.
(b) Among his family.
(c) The core of his communal culture.
(d) Within himself.

2. As noted in Chapter 2, how can false or inaccurate ego identity formations be corrected after being developed by parents in terms of group identity development?
(a) By reworking associations.
(b) They cannot be corrected.
(c) Through psychotherapy.
(d) By immersion.

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

4. In the early 20th century, totalitarian disposition is best understood as what?
(a) It was not understood at all.
(b) The self as separate from others.
(c) A universal human related to all parts of human nature.
(d) Community needs.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What style of identity combines medieval conception of community with modern disobedience and nonviolence?

3. Where does the process of identity formation began?

4. As discussed by Erikson in Chapter 2, what occurs when a system either biological or social malfunctions?

5. What is the definition of "identity" subject to?

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