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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Identity Confusion in Life History and Case History.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the beginning of the 20th century, what demonstrated the possibility to destroy human kind?
(a) Individuality.
(b) Pseudospecies.
(c) Negative identity formation.
(d) Peaceniks.

2. What style of identity combines medieval conception of community with modern disobedience and nonviolence?
(a) Individual.
(b) Conformity.
(c) Anarchy.
(d) Peacenik.

3. What does Erikson state that childhood and youth predispose men to?
(a) Structure.
(b) Totalitarianism.
(c) Childlike wonder.
(d) Confused identities.

4. What aspects of Freud's theory of development does a functional ego integrate?
(a) Psychosocial and psychosexual.
(b) Social and environmental.
(c) Biological and psychosexual.
(d) Psychosocial and biological.

5. What is unique about each stage of Erikson's stages of identity development?
(a) They are flexible.
(b) They are concrete.
(c) Conflict.
(d) The build on one another.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of self is clear when examining Freud's dreams?

2. What does Freud suggest a fearless freedom of thinking is?

3. What does Erikson's theory suggest concerning how children gain a sense of what their adult identities should be?

4. What do most new generations confront as a result of scientific and technological changes?

5. According to Freud, what is the third stage of development called?

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