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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What role does the Know-It-All Trickster play in the Precocious Child?

2. Classically, initiations are a ______ ritual.

3. What do Jungians believe that the Divine Child is the source of?

4. Shadow-sides of a man's personality are _____.

5. There are pleasures and ______ that accompany manhood.

Short Essay Questions

1. According to the authors, why are action movies and sports so favored among men?

2. Why do Jungians believe that there is hope for a resolution in archetypes?

3. Why does the Weakling respond with rage to some situations?

4. According to the authors, what are the most important challenges for a man to face?

5. What is the affect of the King being tied to the divine?

6. What personalities are most prone to the Tyrant? Why?

7. Why is the Lover in such great need of the other archetypes?

8. How could the Lover become the Impotent Lover?

9. If the Warrior is of well-trained body and mind, how does he use his aggression?

10. Once one begins this process, how long do the authors say it take to become a fully-fledged male?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how the archetype of the King exists in our world today. Is it a realistic character? How or why does society need him today?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the complex nature of the Warrior and why and how, despite his aggressive nature, he is considered a functioning archetype.

Essay Topic 3

The authors discuss that many of the problems in masculinity are chain reactions, which have caught men in a vicious cycle. How do you see this same movement happening within the individual shadow-sides?

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