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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Toward Contemporary Issues, Youth.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is unique about each stage of Erikson's stages of identity development?
(a) They are concrete.
(b) They are flexible.
(c) Conflict.
(d) The build on one another.

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

3. In discussing Freud's views on group identity, what does Erikson state is a major cause in identity becoming frustrating and disintegrated?
(a) When the group disbands.
(b) When groups members do not have their own identity.
(c) When there are too many leaders.
(d) When the role of identity in a group changes.

4. Why does Erikson warn the reader not to expect any solid development of mythology in terms of integrating the work on identity over the past two decades?
(a) It will only cause more identity confusion.
(b) It is too complex to understand.
(c) The world changes too quickly.
(d) They cannot be integrated.

5. In Chapter 2, Foundations and Observation, during his discussion on group identity, what group of people does Erikson observe group changes to make his point?
(a) The Sioux Indians.
(b) The Aztec Indians.
(c) Blacks.
(d) Middle class Whites.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Shaw exposed to as a child?

2. What term does Erikson use to refer to the methods used throughout history to integrate identity?

3. What did Shaw convinced himself he was?

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

5. What does Erikson state the ego is in that it knows and understands where it wants to go?

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