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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Erikson state that ideologies have been given a bad name?
(a) Because they are only a set of principles.
(b) They are false.
(c) They have no baring on identity.
(d) They are open to interpretation.

2. According to Erikson, what is the third stage of development?
(a) Initiative vs. guilt.
(b) Intimacy vs. isolation.
(c) Trust vs. mistrust.
(d) Autonomy vs. shame.

3. What does Erikson state youth need so they do not languish in a strictly episodical conscious expansion?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Leadership that can be resistant.
(c) A set of guidelines for identity.
(d) Understanding of the past.

4. In discussing Freud's views on group identity, what does Erikson state is a major cause in identity becoming frustrating and disintegrated?
(a) When the group disbands.
(b) When there are too many leaders.
(c) When groups members do not have their own identity.
(d) When the role of identity in a group changes.

5. What is present within each period of Erikson's theory of identity development?
(a) Inner and outer conflict.
(b) Identity confusion.
(c) Distinct processes.
(d) Social conflict.

6. 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.

7. According to Erikson, how long does it take for identity to develop?
(a) Identity if formed at birth.
(b) 5 years.
(c) A lifetime.
(d) 30 years.

8. In the beginning of the 20th century, what demonstrated the possibility to destroy human kind?
(a) Pseudospecies.
(b) Peaceniks.
(c) Negative identity formation.
(d) Individuality.

9. What does Erikson feel happens when a healthy personality deals with conflict?
(a) They actively master the situation.
(b) They lose their identity.
(c) Their identity becomes confused.
(d) Nothing.

10. What does Erikson believe is an intrinsic part of maturation?
(a) Questioning one's identity.
(b) Identity formation.
(c) Identity crisis.
(d) Growth.

11. What does Erikson suggest society's child training systems does for the uniqueness of society?
(a) Strengthen it.
(b) Preserve it.
(c) Increase standard of living.
(d) Provide meaning.

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

13. In observing groups of people being reeducated by American civil servants, what reason does Erikson provide for why this group became frustrated and identity development?
(a) They did not understand the culture.
(b) They did not speak the language.
(c) They could not integrate the necessary steps for tangible future.
(d) They did not want to be educated.

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

15. What might gaining a stronger self identity correspond to in relation to the majority of the population?
(a) Anarchy.
(b) Emancipation from society.
(c) A strong societal bond.
(d) Totalitarianism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Erikson state that childhood and youth predispose men to?

2. When does Erikson feel individuals develop trust?

3. What does Shaw find his childhood exposures to have been?

4. 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?

5. During the process of Erikson's stages of identity development, what will depend on the total process of identity development?

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