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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 does Erikson suggest defines much of a woman's identity?
(a) How many children she has.
(b) Who she marries.
(c) Attractiveness to men.
(d) Intelligence.

2. Considering the relationship between personal and historical identity formation, how can this relationship be described?
(a) Psychosocial relativity.
(b) Ancestral relativity.
(c) Psychosomatic confusion.
(d) Genetic relativity.

3. Interpreting Freud's theory, what does Erikson feel occurs when the ego resists integrating into new environments?
(a) Identity displacement.
(b) Identity loss.
(c) Identity confusion.
(d) Identity resistance.

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

5. According to Erikson in Chapter 2, what does personal identity focus on?
(a) Unconscious feelings.
(b) Feelings of others.
(c) Place in society.
(d) Conscious feelings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What elements does Erikson suggest can be caused by the demand to develop a distinct identity?

2. What might the older generation, as suggested by Erikson, use youth's need for joining to satisfy?

3. According to Erikson, by meeting the youth's needs what occurs in terms of the historical context?

4. What does Erikson suggest wholeness of the individual is associated with?

5. As discussed in Chapter 1, what first lead to the scientific mythology of the mind?

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