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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 does Erikson suggest occurs in institutionalized settings such as a hospital with regard to identity?
(a) Emergence of self.
(b) Conformity of identity.
(c) Development of oneliness.
(d) Desperation for identity.

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

3. How does Erikson feel the majority of women react to feminists?
(a) With indifference.
(b) Strongly.
(c) Weakly.
(d) Revert to old ways.

4. What does Erikson feel about psychoanalysts' use of biology?
(a) It has not place in the study of identity.
(b) It is important to the study of identity.
(c) It is innovative.
(d) Shallow and inaccurate.

5. How does Erikson suggest men were able to end the adolescent process?
(a) Subordinate their childhood identities to a new identity.
(b) Get married.
(c) Develop an adult identity.
(d) Get a job.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 2, what does Erikson feel about how psychologists treat social dynamics and external social elements?

3. 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?

4. What does Erikson feel the biological process of psychoanalysis has become?

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

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