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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. The Precocious Child is prone to _____ activity.

2. What role does the Weakling Prince play in the Divine Child?

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

4. The Precocious Child becomes:

5. What have the authors observed about how young men feel about maturity?

Short Essay Questions

1. Can the shadow sides of a male personality integrate into a fully mature male? What is their affect on an adult?

2. Why is the Sadist a shadow of the Warrior?

3. How do the authors think a man can become fully functioning?

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

5. How does a young man become a fully-fledged adult male?

6. Why does the High Chair Tyrant act as he does? As a child? As an adult?

7. Why is the Magician considered powerful?

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

9. What defines the conditions of the Magician today?

10. Why is the Hero the most advanced stage of a boy's psychology?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

What are the conditions that would cause the Precocious Child to transform into his shadow sides, the Know-It-All Trickster or the Dummy? How and why does this happen?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss whether the author's suggestions for correcting this crisis are feasible or not. Can it be done simply by man's realization of its true nature? Are there other challenges that are beyond man's control? What else is needed for this correction?

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