Q 01/05

Which American illustrator, a Stockbridge neighbor, became Erik Erikson's patient and friend?

A) Maxfield Parrish

B) Edward Hopper

C) Norman Rockwell

D) Grant Wood

Answer · why

C) Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell lived in the same small Massachusetts town where Erikson worked at the Austen Riggs Center from 1951 to 1960, treating emotionally tro...

Q 02/05

Erik Erikson rose to an Ivy League professorship despite never having earned which of these?

A) A university degree

B) A psychoanalytic diploma

C) A high school diploma

D) American citizenship

Answer · why

A) A university degree

A university degree was something Erikson never earned: after secondary school he spent years roaming Europe, and his later academic posts rested on h...

Q 03/05

Erik Erikson grew up as Erik Homburger; where did the surname Erikson come from when he adopted it?

A) His wife's maiden name

B) His mother's maiden name

C) A beloved teacher's name

D) He invented it himself

Answer · why

D) He invented it himself

He invented it himself, dropping his stepfather's surname as the family became American citizens. His children were said to be glad they would no long...

Q 04/05

In Pittsburgh, Erik Erikson worked at a nursery school alongside which future children's TV host?

A) Jim Henson

B) Fred Rogers

C) Bob Keeshan

D) Shari Lewis

Answer · why

B) Fred Rogers

Fred Rogers and the baby-care author Benjamin Spock both worked with Erikson at the Arsenal Nursery School. Rogers later built Erikson's ideas about y...

Q 05/05

Erik Erikson coined the term "identity crisis" for a struggle he tied to which period of life?

A) Young adulthood

B) Adolescence

C) Middle age

D) Retirement

Answer · why

B) Adolescence

Adolescence is when Erikson believed people must settle who they are and how they fit in. He wrote that his own youthful confusion had sat on the bord...