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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Erikson feel various features of humanity should be examined?
(a) Empirically.
(b) They need not be examined.
(c) Through observations.
(d) Through discussion.

3. Considering Erikson's theory of group identity development, what are cultures often led to do concerning their values?
(a) Confirm them.
(b) Give them up.
(c) Absolutize them.
(d) Modify them.

4. What does Erikson say about the absence of black fathers?
(a) It is the downfall of the race.
(b) It is the only reason for identity confusion.
(c) It is only psychologically.
(d) It is physically.

5. What does Erikson feel one must explore in a discussion of women that may block meaningful discussion?
(a) Intellectual reactions and resistances.
(b) Physical reactions and resistances.
(c) Psychological reactions and resistances.
(d) Emotional reactions and resistances.

6. What does Erikson feel about psychoanalysts' use of biology?
(a) It has not place in the study of identity.
(b) It is innovative.
(c) It is important to the study of identity.
(d) Shallow and inaccurate.

7. How is identity diffusion manifested during the adolescent stages of Erikson's theory of identity development?
(a) No adolescent moratorium.
(b) Long adolescent moratorium.
(c) Short adolescent moratorium.
(d) Strong identity.

8. What do many youth move back and forth between in terms of dysfunctional modes of Erikson's theory of identity development?
(a) Mild conformity and mild deviancy.
(b) Devoted conformity and devotion to self.
(c) Extreme deviancy and repentance.
(d) Devoted conformity and extreme deviancy.

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

10. Why does Erikson suggest men are resistant to respond to women?
(a) Age-old physical reasons.
(b) Age-old psychological reasons.
(c) They are frightened.
(d) It is not proper.

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

12. What does Erikson suggest might save blacks from having to integrate their identities based on their own decision to do so?
(a) Religion.
(b) Family.
(c) Community.
(d) Public policy.

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

14. What to processes, according to Erikson as discussed in Chapter 5, are tied together?
(a) Ego and social.
(b) Social and environmental.
(c) Ego and self identification.
(d) Ego and environmental.

15. What does the process of meeting fidelity do for Erikson's theory of youth identity?
(a) Denies it.
(b) Strengthens it.
(c) Confuses it.
(d) Confirms it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do environmental counterweights of identity help explain in terms of Freud's theory of identity?

2. What often occurs when youth are isolated according to Erikson's theory of identity development?

3. What does Erikson feel has barker elements that may not be wholly sincere?

4. Who does Erikson use as an example to discuss the identity of blacks?

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

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