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

2. According to Erikson, in his review and observations of changes in culture, what does he suggest will become common values among today's youth?
(a) Choice and identity.
(b) Leadership.
(c) Dissonance.
(d) Common identity.

3. According to Erikson, what does totalitarianism require of society?
(a) A combination of identities.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Conformity.
(d) A sense of legitimacy of state power.

4. What do most new generations confront as a result of scientific and technological changes?
(a) Increased identity confusion.
(b) A repeat of the past.
(c) Radically new possibilities and forms of thought.
(d) Possibilities for artificial wisdom.

5. What does Erikson state youth need so they do not languish in a strictly episodical conscious expansion?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Understanding of the past.
(c) A set of guidelines for identity.
(d) Leadership that can be resistant.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Considering Erikson's theory of groups identity development, what type of group demands does ego identity help balance?

4. What are two characteristics Erikson applies to the task of the ego in order to maintain and organize its existence?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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