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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. In light of Erikson's view on identity development within communities, what must communities recognize in youth?
(a) Their energy.
(b) Their lack of identity.
(c) Their identity.
(d) Their rebellion.

2. What is the definition of "identity" subject to?
(a) The future.
(b) Changes in history.
(c) The researcher.
(d) The individual.

3. What do many youth move back and forth between in terms of dysfunctional modes of Erikson's theory of identity development?
(a) Devoted conformity and devotion to self.
(b) Devoted conformity and extreme deviancy.
(c) Extreme deviancy and repentance.
(d) Mild conformity and mild deviancy.

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

5. According to Erikson in Chapter 2, what occurs when the ego combines elements that result in an inability to form a positive self-image?
(a) Negative identity formation.
(b) Stereotyping.
(c) No identity formation.
(d) Ego synthesis fails.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Erikson, what is the second stage of identity development?

2. What does Erikson feel may have been lost to modernity?

3. What was Shaw exposed to as a child?

4. Throughout the stages of Erikson's theory of identity development, what happens if youth do not take advantage of the wisdom elders have to share?

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?

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