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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Toward Contemporary Issues, Youth.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Erikson, what is the second stage of identity development?
(a) Initiative vs. Guilt.
(b) Autonomy vs. shame.
(c) Trust vs. mistrust.
(d) Intimacy vs. isolation.

2. What does Erikson suggest offers simplified perspectives in order to avoid confusion of societal beliefs and goals?
(a) Community structure.
(b) Ideologies.
(c) Social understanding.
(d) Education.

3. Based on Freud's theory of identity, Ego identity results in two actions, one of which is synthesizing the frontiers of the ego; what is the other action?
(a) Completing identity.
(b) Analyzing the frontiers of the ego.
(c) Merging self with the past.
(d) Merging self with the environment.

4. What do youth recognize the need for during Erikson's stages of identity development?
(a) Community.
(b) Loyalty.
(c) Friends.
(d) Family.

5. What is the core part of identity formation that cannot be separated from this formation?
(a) Peace of mind.
(b) Authority acceptance.
(c) Individuality.
(d) Collectivism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the success of identification during Erikson's stages of development depend on?

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

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

4. What did Shaw care so much about being?

5. What can reinforce the process of negative identity formation in terms of Erikson's stages of identity development?

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