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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. What dose Erikson say psychoanalysts' fail to recognize about the ego?
(a) It can exist without human social organization.
(b) It depends on the individual.
(c) It is based solely on environment.
(d) It cannot exist without human social organization.

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

3. In light of Erikson's view on identity development within communities, what must communities recognize in youth?
(a) Their rebellion.
(b) Their identity.
(c) Their lack of identity.
(d) Their energy.

4. 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 can not form their identities.
(b) They may become isolated.
(c) Nothing.
(d) They form distinct identities.

5. What elements does Erikson suggest can be caused by the demand to develop a distinct identity?
(a) Split identities.
(b) Ego strength.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Confusion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of feelings does Erikson proposed are experienced by those in oppressed groups?

2. According to Erikson, by meeting the youth's needs what occurs in terms of the historical context?

3. What does the process of meeting fidelity do for Erikson's theory of youth identity?

4. Interpreting Freud's theory, what does Erikson feel occurs when the ego resists integrating into new environments?

5. According to Erikson, how are oppressed groups' negative identities confirmed?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. According to Erikson what is necessary for a woman to form her identity?

3. Why does Erikson's notion of identity resistance often occur and therapy?

4. The why does Erikson feel that anatomy is destiny?

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

6. What is Erikson state that is so difficult for black youth to find their identity?

7. What is the difference between the Ego and "I"?

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

9. In referring to Erikson's theory of racial identity development, how are the negative self images of minorities unintentionally reinforced by the majority?

10. What does the process of identity confirmation include?

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