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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Erikson feel the biological process of psychoanalysis has become?
(a) Pseudobiology.
(b) Essential but not emphasized enough.
(c) The forefront of study.
(d) Obsolete.

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

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

6. What does Erikson suggest occurs in institutionalized settings such as a hospital with regard to identity?
(a) Desperation for identity.
(b) Conformity of identity.
(c) Emergence of self.
(d) Development of oneliness.

7. 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 extreme deviancy.
(c) Extreme deviancy and repentance.
(d) Devoted conformity and devotion to self.

8. 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) Peace.
(c) Final identity.
(d) Racial liberation.

9. Throughout the stages of Erikson's theory of identity development, what happens if youth do not take advantage of the wisdom elders have to share?
(a) They may become isolated.
(b) Nothing.
(c) They form distinct identities.
(d) They can not form their identities.

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

11. What does Erikson suggest is in the domain of the inter agency that produces a coherent existence?
(a) The ego.
(b) Ancestors.
(c) Environment.
(d) Biology.

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

13. What according to Erikson, what involves testing, selecting, and integrating self images?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Ego identity.
(c) Community structures.
(d) Self-esteem.

14. What are women isolated by during Erikson's stages of identity development?
(a) Their inner productive space.
(b) Their fathers.
(c) Their outer productive space.
(d) Their mothers.

15. The oppression of blacks, according to Erikson has done what to the mother-father presence?
(a) Created identity confusion.
(b) Created an imbalance.
(c) Created identity diffusion.
(d) Nothing significant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does Erikson use for a biological life cycle?

2. What two characteristics does Erikson believe are central to the female identity?

3. What aspect of life does Erikson suggest women suffer over excessively?

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

5. What does Erikson state that the self-concept of self esteem is tied to?

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