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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Crisis in Masculine Ritual Process and Masculine Potentials.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The authors believe that men are _____ by nature.
(a) Selfish.
(b) Violent.
(c) Childish.
(d) Nurturing.

2. In the negative conditions youth experience today, what pattern do the authors see developing in young people?
(a) Identifying more with women.
(b) Developing a Peter Pan complex.
(c) Trying to change the world.
(d) Developing their own rites of passage without guidance.

3. What do the authors hope is the correction of this male crisis?
(a) Women's empowerment.
(b) Strong public figures.
(c) An internal blueprint in men.
(d) Harsher laws.

4. What have the authors observed about how young men feel about maturity?
(a) They will only mature for a reward.
(b) They are eager to mature.
(c) They feel obligated to mature.
(d) They are very resistant to maturity.

5. In an initiation, the ritual space is considered _______.
(a) Fictional.
(b) Arbitrary.
(c) Turbulent.
(d) Sacred.

Short Answer Questions

1. What have the authors observed young men being forced to do without a ritual elder?

2. Who leads the initiation?

3. What do Moore and Gillette claim happens in a young man's development without an initiation?

4. In conclusion of their discussions of initiation, the authors stress that the most important element of a young man's initiation is _____.

5. "Crisis" stresses that a young man's initiation is ________.

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