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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. What do environmental counterweights of identity help explain in terms of Freud's theory of identity?
(a) Self.
(b) Society.
(c) Inner world of the ego.
(d) Outer world of the ego.

2. What arises from achieving a sense of identity or a revolution of awareness as proposed in Erikson's theory of racial identity development?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Racial liberation.
(c) Final identity.
(d) Peace.

3. How does Erikson think ideologies should be filled?
(a) By society.
(b) Technology.
(c) By the youth themselves.
(d) Intellectual cultivation.

4. Who does Erikson use as an example to discuss the identity of blacks?
(a) C.S. Lewis.
(b) W.E.B. DuBois.
(c) Freud.
(d) Martian Luther King.

5. Where does Erikson feel ego strength some from in youth?
(a) Community.
(b) Parents.
(c) Confirmation of individuality.
(d) Confirmation of conformity.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the normative crisis of identity formation occur?

2. Why was Erikson so impressed with Shaw?

3. What term does Erikson use to describe the fluctuation of ego strength and high growth potential?

4. How does Erikson feel the majority of women react to feminists?

5. What type of groups, as proposed by Erikson, often play on the various needs of youth?

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