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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 the process of identity formation began?
(a) With mother and baby.
(b) As a toddler.
(c) As an adolescent.
(d) As a young adult.

2. What might the older generation, as suggested by Erikson, use youth's need for joining to satisfy?
(a) Need for independence.
(b) Need for fidelity.
(c) Need to rebel.
(d) Need for conformity.

3. Erikson notes that James' youth was full of emotional strains in struggles for what?
(a) Identity formation.
(b) Sanity.
(c) Love.
(d) Happiness.

4. What aspects of Freud's theory of development does a functional ego integrate?
(a) Psychosocial and psychosexual.
(b) Psychosocial and biological.
(c) Biological and psychosexual.
(d) Social and environmental.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Considering Erikson's theory of groups identity development, what type of group demands does ego identity help balance?

2. What to processes, according to Erikson as discussed in Chapter 5, are tied together?

3. How the James decide he could strengthen his ego?

4. What do the elements of the self produce in light of Erikson's theory of identity development?

5. What does George Bernard Shaw despise?

(see the answer key)

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