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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Race and Wider Identity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As noted in Chapter 2, how can false or inaccurate ego identity formations be corrected after being developed by parents in terms of group identity development?
(a) They cannot be corrected.
(b) By immersion.
(c) Through psychotherapy.
(d) By reworking associations.

2. Why does Erikson state that remorseful majorities be watched?
(a) They may lose their identity.
(b) They may become oppressed.
(c) They may not really be remorseful.
(d) They may repeat habitual patterns.

3. What was William James obsessed with his entire life?
(a) Social dysfunction.
(b) Self.
(c) Identity.
(d) Morbid psychology.

4. Where does Erikson feel ego strength some from in youth?
(a) Parents.
(b) Confirmation of individuality.
(c) Confirmation of conformity.
(d) Community.

5. Considering Freud's elements of the mind, what are the counterweights of the ego?
(a) Environment and society.
(b) Id and superego.
(c) Id and society.
(d) Self and society.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are two characteristics Erikson applies to the task of the ego in order to maintain and organize its existence?

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

3. Why does Erikson state that ideologies have been given a bad name?

4. What, according to Erikson, is destructive for blacks?

5. According to Erikson in Chapter 2, what occurs when the ego combines elements that result in an inability to form a positive self-image?

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