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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Womanhood and the Inner Space.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Shaw care so much about being?
(a) Moral.
(b) Amoral.
(c) Happy.
(d) Smart.

2. 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 understanding.
(c) New identity.
(d) New traditions.

3. What does Erikson indicate many psychoanalysts think humans are predisposed to do?
(a) Interact with the environment.
(b) Accept their environment.
(c) Be passive actors in their environment.
(d) Change the environment.

4. How does Erikson feel adults eventually settle on an identity?
(a) Based on their parents identity.
(b) Based on their place in society.
(c) Through the mechanisms of identification.
(d) Based on childhood experiences.

5. What did Shaw convinced himself he was?
(a) A complete outsider.
(b) A genius.
(c) A helper.
(d) A leader.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Erikson warn the reader not to expect any solid development of mythology in terms of integrating the work on identity over the past two decades?

2. In terms of Erikson's theory of individual development, what is required in order to transcend toward individuality?

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

4. What does Erikson suggest is in the domain of the inter agency that produces a coherent existence?

5. 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?

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