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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Erikson think ideologies should be filled?
(a) Technology.
(b) By the youth themselves.
(c) Intellectual cultivation.
(d) By society.

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

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

4. What do environmental counterweights of identity help explain in terms of Freud's theory of identity?
(a) Inner world of the ego.
(b) Self.
(c) Society.
(d) Outer world of the ego.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Erikson state that remorseful majorities be watched?

2. How does Erikson feel various features of humanity should be examined?

3. What does Erikson wish youth would search for?

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

5. In terms of Erikson's theory of identity development, what is one notion that youth resist?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Erikson think is different about the male and female focus of identity?

2. Why does Erikson believe political underground groups often target youth?

3. What is the overriding issue concerning Erikson's proposal of ideologies and identity development?

4. How does Erikson propose a sketch of psychopathology can help make sense of a new identity?

5. According to post-Freudian theory, how is culture developed around women?

6. According to Erikson, why is preoccupation with identity the symptom of alienation?

7. In Chapter 5, why has Erikson replace the term identity confusion with identity diffusion?

8. Why does Erikson think that biology is shallow and inaccurate?

9. What is unique about a revolution or awareness of identity as discussed by Erikson in chapter eight "Race and Wider Identity"?

10. What resulted from Marx-Freud polarization?

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