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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. At what stage in Erikson's theory of development may an individual begin to lose confidence or identity and enter period of listlessness?
(a) Autonomy vs. shame.
(b) Generativity vs. stagnation.
(c) Industry vs. inferiority.
(d) Intimacy vs. isolation.

2. Why does Erikson feel focus has moved to women?
(a) They are equal to men.
(b) Threat of nuclear annihilation.
(c) They are more than housewives.
(d) They have a lot to offer.

3. What does Erikson feel has barker elements that may not be wholly sincere?
(a) Emancipation of women.
(b) Oppression of women.
(c) Identity of women.
(d) Helpless feelings of women.

4. What does Erikson resist characterizing modern youth as?
(a) Ready for adulthood.
(b) Lacking identity.
(c) Self-absorbed.
(d) Lacking virtue.

5. Why does Erikson state that remorseful majorities be watched?
(a) They may not really be remorseful.
(b) They may lose their identity.
(c) They may repeat habitual patterns.
(d) They may become oppressed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Erikson state the ego is in that it knows and understands where it wants to go?

2. In the beginning of the 20th century, what demonstrated the possibility to destroy human kind?

3. What does it mean when the author states, "to review the concept of identity"?

4. What dose Erikson say psychoanalysts' fail to recognize about the ego?

5. In light of Erikson's view on identity development within communities, what must communities recognize in youth?

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