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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Race and Wider Identity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Erikson feel our self representations stem from?
(a) History.
(b) Future prospects.
(c) Parents.
(d) Psychosocial crises of childhood.

2. What according to Erikson, what involves testing, selecting, and integrating self images?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Community structures.
(c) Ego identity.
(d) Self-esteem.

3. Why was Erikson so impressed with Shaw?
(a) He developed a good theory of development.
(b) He did not care what others thought.
(c) He was very intelligent.
(d) He could integrate the complex elements of life.

4. What does Erikson feel may have been lost to modernity?
(a) Ideologies.
(b) Cosmic wholeness.
(c) Self-identity.
(d) Self-preservation.

5. 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?
(a) They cannot be integrated.
(b) It is too complex to understand.
(c) It will only cause more identity confusion.
(d) The world changes too quickly.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what stage in Erikson's theory of development may an individual begin to lose confidence or identity and enter period of listlessness?

2. What must occur for an individual to move from one stage of development to the next in Erikson's theory of development?

3. What aspect of life does Erikson suggest women suffer over excessively?

4. In terms of Erikson's theory of identity development, what is one notion that youth resist?

5. The oppression of blacks, according to Erikson has done what to the mother-father presence?

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