
1. Erikson explains that Luther needed God to approve his avocation as a monk, because
~ Luther needed approval of a Divine Father to overrule the refusal of his own father Hans, which would either compel Hans to let Luther go or allow Luther to forswear his father and fatherhood entirely.
@ Luther needed approval of a Divine Father to overrule the refusal of his own father Hans, which would either compel Hans to let Luther go or allow Luther to forswear his father and fatherhood entirely.
*a. Luther needed approval of a Divine Father to overrule the refusal of his own father Hans, which would either compel Hans to let Luther go or allow Luther to forswear his father and fatherhood entirely.
b. Luther's father and mother disapproved.
c. Luther had only made the decision because he was afraid of lightning and needed some external motivation.
d. because Luther had inner doubts about being able to make a successful legal career.

2. A psychohistorical analysis such as this could be best applied
~ A psychohistorical analysis such as this could be best applied to an account of someone's life. The most common use of psychohistorical analysis is in biographies, although Freud himself applied his concepts to the study of the individual's relation to civilization (Civilization and its Discontents).
@ A psychohistorical analysis such as this could be best applied to an account of someone's life. The most common use of psychohistorical analysis is in biographies, although Freud himself applied his concepts to the study of the individual's relation to civilization (Civilization and its Discontents).
a. to the study of changes that are longue durée (long duration).
*b. to an account of someone's life.
c. to study of a culture.
d. to research concerning the divide within the Catholic Church.

3. "There is nothing to indicate, however, that Martin did not apply himself fully to his studies when the semester started. Yet in the middle of it he asked for the quite unusual permission to take a short leave. He went home, nobody seems to know what happened there...Luther, years later, reminded Hans of some remarks, made at an unspecified time, to the effect that the father had declared his son not be cut out for monastic life. I cannot find a better time when this could have been said than on the occasion of that impulsive visit home." In this quotation, Erikson
~ In this quotation Erikson connects two pieces of evidence from different sources to suggest that Luther's father originally denied Luther permission to pursue a life in the Church.
@ In this quotation Erikson connects two pieces of evidence from different sources to suggest that Luther's father originally denied Luther permission to pursue a life in the Church.
a. provides context for the later story of the thunderstorm.
*b. connects two pieces of evidence from different sources to suggest that Luther's father originally denied Luther permission to pursue a life in the Church.
c. uses pychohistorical analysis to suggest that Luther suffered from an Oedipus complex.
d. fabricates a lie about Luther's father based on no evidence at all. 

4. Psychohistory is the application of whose ideas to historical analysis?
~ Psychohistory is the application of Sigmund Freud's ideas to historical analysis.
@ Psychohistory is the application of Sigmund Freud's ideas to historical analysis.
a. Erik Erikson.
b. Jean Piaget.
c. Carl Jung.
*d. Sigmund Freud.

5. According to Erikson, Luther's father Hans accepted his son's desire for a monastic career
~ According to Erikson, Luther's father Hans accepted his son's desire for a monastic career only because he was mourning the deaths of his two other sons. 
@ According to Erikson, Luther's father Hans accepted his son's desire for a monastic career only because he was mourning the deaths of his two other sons.
*a. only because he was mourning the deaths of his two other sons.
b. only because Luther's mother Margarethe convinced him to.
c. only on his deathbed shortly after Luther's provisional acceptance into the Augustinian Eremites in Erfurt.
d. only after witnessing the impact of his son's _Ninety-Five Theses_.

6. A possible critique of Erikson's work could be
~ A possible critique of Erikson's work could be that Erikson treats speculations about Luther's inner life as if they were fact. 
@ A possible critique of Erikson's work could be that Erikson treats speculations about Luther's inner life as if they were fact. 
a. the fact that Erikson was not a historian and failed to use proper documentation of his sources.
b. that Erikson's conception of human psychology is outdated.
c. that Erikson is relying on belief in the supernatural such as acts of divine intervention.
*d. that Erikson treats speculations about Luther's inner life as if they were fact.

7. Increased influence of social science disciplines on historiography can be attributed to
~ Increased influence of social science disciplines on historiography can be attributed to Annales-school historians, who popularized the idea of cross-disciplinary research, paving the way for historiographical methods such as psychohistory.
@ Increased influence of social science disciplines on historiography can be attributed to Annales-school historians, who popularized the idea of cross-disciplinary research, paving the way for historiographical methods such as psychohistory.
a. Philosophical realism.
b. Sigmund Freud.
*c. Annales-school historians.
d. Marxist historians.

8. Judging a book based on its cover, which of the following titles is most likely an example of pyschohistory?
~ _The Unconscious Mind of John F. Kennedy_
@ _The Unconscious Mind of John F. Kennedy_
a. _An Account of Woodrow Wilson's Private Life based on his Correspondence_
*b. _The Unconscious Mind of John F. Kennedy_
c. _The Decline of Rock and Roll's Popularity in America_
d. _Psychology: Its History and Impact_

9. A theory stated within the introduction to this selection states that unnatural repression of desires (which is here is often attributed to the restrictive nature of things such as "higher" civilization) causes people to become neurotic. In which of the following quotations from Erikson's account of Martin Luther is this best expressed?
~ "If Martin was already thinking or talking of the monastery, then there would have been an open clash of wills, which would provide a simple explanation for the break which was to occur. On the other hand, Martin must be assumed to have been at the time in the throes of a conflict which...must have made the idea of a marital commitment repugnant to the point of open panic...." Erikson describes Luther's desire as clashing with the will of his father, causing a neurotic state.
@ "If Martin was already thinking or talking of the monastery, then there would have been an open clash of wills, which would provide a simple explanation for the break which was to occur. On the other hand, Martin must be assumed to have been at the time in the throes of a conflict which...must have made the idea of a marital commitment repugnant to the point of open panic...." Erikson describes Luther's desire as clashing with the will of his father, causing a neurotic state.
a. "Maybe an orthodox psychoanalyst will phantasy into Luther's life the trivial outline of a deep and firmly anchored Oedipus complex which was aroused by a forceful and libidinal attachment to the vivacious and, as far as we know, gifted and imaginative mother, and accentuated by the sinister harshness of the father toward him."
b. "Not only were there no witnesses; but most important, Luther himself never claimed to have seen or heard anything supernatural. He only records that something in him made him pronounce a vow before the rest of him knew what he was saying."
c. "He felt, as he put it later, terrore et agonis mortis subitae circumvallatus, as if completely walled in by the painful fear of a sudden death. Before he knew it, he had called out, "Help me, St. Anne...I want to become a monk." On his return to Erfurt, he told his friends that he felt committed to enter a monastery. He did not inform his father."
*d. "If Martin was already thinking or talking of the monastery, then there would have been an open clash of wills, which would provide a simple explanation for the break which was to occur. On the other hand, Martin must be assumed to have been at the time in the throes of a conflict which...must have made the idea of a marital commitment repugnant to the point of open panic..."

10. Psychohistory is
~ Psychohistory is a style of history writing that employs the terminology and analytical methods of pychoanalysis. 
@ Psychohistory is a style of history writing that employs the terminology and analytical methods of pychoanalysis. 
a. a historiographical method that attempts cover all aspects of history, requiring cooperation with social scientists and the use of their methods.
b. the rebellion against notions that the study of language and culture could reveal essential codes of human behavior.
*c. a style of history writing that employs the terminology and analytical methods of psychoanalysis.
d. a historiographical school that sought to downplay the significance of political "event oriented" history, in favor of studying long-term ecological, economic, and social change.