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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Miller use as an analogy for God's love and father-son love?
(a) A tomato plant.
(b) A mother-daughter relationship.
(c) A snow storm.
(d) A car.

2. What does Miller struggle to give up in this journey?
(a) His desire to be perfect.
(b) His search for a father.
(c) His bad habits.
(d) His need to be loved by all.

3. Miller describes his mother as being exhausted because of him. He learns the real reason she is exhausted. What is this?
(a) Because her partner left her as a single mother.
(b) Miller's mother is sick.
(c) Miller's mother drinks too much.
(d) Miller's mother works too hard.

4. What metaphor does Miller use to describe the role of elders in transferring information to the next generation?
(a) He does not use a metaphor.
(b) Emergency personnel responding to a community crisis.
(c) Airline pilots radioing weather conditions to the next pilot.
(d) Teachers in high school.

5. What group of people does Miller suggest are similar to orphaned elephants?
(a) Male prisoners who grow up without a father.
(b) Foster children in the child welfare system.
(c) All prisoners in in the United States.
(d) Children from single-parent families.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reason that Miller gives for failing to find positive male influences in his life?

2. What kind of relationship does Miller want with a father?

3. What does Miller read that also helps him to understand importance of a father in a child's fife?

4. As a child and adolescent, who does Miller resent?

5. Who is Miller's intended audience?

Short Essay Questions

1. The author's writing style should appeal to whom?

2. Miller identifies several areas in his life affected by not having a father. What are these areas?

3. According to the information in the prologue, who is the intended audience for this book?

4. In Chapter 6, Miller admits to having difficulties in establishing positive male relationships. What reasons does Miller give for having difficulty establishing positive male influences in his life?

5. In Chapter 5, Miller begins to identify the positive and negative characteristics of God's love. What are these characteristics?

6. In Chapter 6, Authority, Miller uses a metaphor of airline pilots warning each other about weather conditions. What point is Miller illustrating with this story?

7. In Chapters 5 and 6, Miller makes a connection between authority and love. Describe this connection.

8. In Chapter 1, Miller describes several events and activities in which he attempts to interact with adult men. Most of these experiences do not appear to have been successful. In addition to camping, making a derby car, and playing with a remote-controlled airplane, what other "manly man" activities may Miller have missed because he did not have a father?

9. What does Miller learn about family from living with the MacMurray family?

10. In Chapter 5, what does Miller describe as crucial tasks of families?

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