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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What aspect of life does Erikson suggest women suffer over excessively?
(a) Finding identity.
(b) Getting a better job.
(c) Having a family.
(d) Helping other.

2. In Chapter 8, what does Erikson suggest is a natural characteristic of identity?
(a) Individual.
(b) Fluid.
(c) Territorial.
(d) Controversial.

3. What two characteristics does Erikson believe are central to the female identity?
(a) Empathy and happiness.
(b) Sterness and family.
(c) Independence and family.
(d) Empathy and family.

4. What do youth try to balance while going through Erikson's stages of identity development?
(a) Fidelity and diversity.
(b) Diversity and identity.
(c) Fidelity and identity.
(d) Diversity and society.

5. What do the elements of the self produce in light of Erikson's theory of identity development?
(a) An understanding.
(b) A composite of society.
(c) A potential identity.
(d) A composite of self.

6. Why does Erikson suggest women are more passive than men?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Environment.
(c) Socialization.
(d) Biology.

7. What is the critical stage of Erikson's theory of development where women develop their female identity?
(a) When they have children.
(b) This never fully forms.
(c) When they leave the family.
(d) When they get married.

8. In order to successful integration to occur what does Erikson feel must fit together?
(a) Identity and race.
(b) The past and the present.
(c) Life and natural history.
(d) Minorities and majorities.

9. What does Erikson wish youth would search for?
(a) Truth based on society.
(b) Common ground with society.
(c) Self.
(d) Something not sanctioned by society.

10. How does Erikson feel the majority of women react to feminists?
(a) Strongly.
(b) Weakly.
(c) Revert to old ways.
(d) With indifference.

11. How are Erikson's ideologies of youth fulfilled?
(a) Technology.
(b) By society.
(c) By the youth themselves.
(d) Intellectual cultivation.

12. In terms of Erikson's theory of identity development, what is one notion that youth resist?
(a) The future.
(b) The present.
(c) The past.
(d) Youth do not resist.

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

14. According to Erikson, by meeting the youth's needs what occurs in terms of the historical context?
(a) It is passed on to the next generation of youth.
(b) It is forgotten.
(c) Youth are integrated in it.
(d) Nothing.

15. How does Erikson say black males have been exploited?
(a) Physically.
(b) As humans.
(c) As domestic animals.
(d) Psychologically.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Erikson feel the biological process of psychoanalysis has become?

2. Why does Erikson think the black identity has been confused?

3. What elements of Erikson's theory must be balanced in order to avoid obsessiveness and relativism?

4. Within the Erikson's system of the self-concept, what is produced by the ego?

5. What does Erikson say about the absence of black fathers?

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