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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 High Chair Tyrant play in the Divine Child?

2. What were cave paintings meant to illustrate?

3. What is the role of the Mama's Boy in the Oedipal Child?

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

5. The cave paintings detail the "____ world" of masculinity.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the authors believe immaturity shouldn't be completely destroyed in a male's development?

2. Why do the authors tell men not to degrade themselves?

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

4. Why is the Weakling the contrast of the Tyrant?

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

6. Why do the authors believe a ritual elder is necessary to a young man's successful ascension into manhood?

7. How could the Lover become the Impotent Lover?

8. Why don't men hold the pinnacle of their archetype?

9. What happens to the Coward when he hits his "breaking point"?

10. What do the authors claim is the cause of this crisis in the male psyche?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the Manipulator and Denying Innocent One's compulsion to withhold information and how this relates to negative aspects of human nature.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

The authors describe an internal blueprint in men, which will govern them to think and act positively. Discuss corrections for this crisis and how those blueprints can be realized.

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