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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. What term does Erikson use for a biological life cycle?
(a) Psyche.
(b) Soma.
(c) Ego.
(d) Id.

2. According to Erikson in Chapter 2, what does personal identity focus on?
(a) Feelings of others.
(b) Unconscious feelings.
(c) Conscious feelings.
(d) Place in society.

3. Why does Erikson state that ideologies have been given a bad name?
(a) They have no baring on identity.
(b) They are false.
(c) Because they are only a set of principles.
(d) They are open to interpretation.

4. What aspects of Freud's theory of development does a functional ego integrate?
(a) Psychosocial and biological.
(b) Psychosocial and psychosexual.
(c) Biological and psychosexual.
(d) Social and environmental.

5. What does Erikson say about the absence of black fathers?
(a) It is the downfall of the race.
(b) It is physically.
(c) It is only psychologically.
(d) It is the only reason for identity confusion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Erikson suggest offers simplified perspectives in order to avoid confusion of societal beliefs and goals?

2. Why does Erikson think the black identity has been confused?

3. What does the success of identification during Erikson's stages of development depend on?

4. Since there were few empirical studies, how did Erikson's study individuals?

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

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