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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Foundations in Observation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What style of identity combines medieval conception of community with modern disobedience and nonviolence?
(a) Anarchy.
(b) Conformity.
(c) Individual.
(d) Peacenik.

2. According to Erikson in Chapter 2, what occurs when the ego combines elements that result in an inability to form a positive self-image?
(a) Ego synthesis fails.
(b) Negative identity formation.
(c) No identity formation.
(d) Stereotyping.

3. According to Erikson, in his review and observations of changes in culture, what does he suggest will become common values among today's youth?
(a) Common identity.
(b) Dissonance.
(c) Choice and identity.
(d) Leadership.

4. What type of self is clear when examining Freud's dreams?
(a) Suppressed self.
(b) Open-minded self.
(c) Confident self.
(d) Identified self.

5. Erikson states that we deal with the process located in the core of the individual and where else?
(a) Among his family.
(b) In his past.
(c) The core of his communal culture.
(d) Within himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the process of identity formation began?

2. What does Erikson suggest wholeness of the individual is associated with?

3. What does Freud's consciousness of inner identity include?

4. In the beginning of the 20th century, what demonstrated the possibility to destroy human kind?

5. Because of an individual's tendency to define self based on history, what does Erikson think this self-based history leave little room for the individual to create?

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