View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How, specifically, does Mr. Gentiles help Miller?
(a) He prays for Miller.
(b) He teaches Miller to read the Bible.
(c) He gives Miller a job at the church.
(d) He encourages Miller to write for the church youth newsletter.

2. Writing this book appears to have been what type of experience for the author?
(a) Selfish.
(b) Boring.
(c) Cathartic.
(d) Difficult.

3. Why is Miller particularly upset with older men?
(a) Their apparent show of powers.
(b) They are not interested in him.
(c) Their lives are easy.
(d) They do not understand him.

4. As a child, Miller remembers hearing fairy tales about which animals?
(a) Witches.
(b) Dwarves and dragons.
(c) Angels.
(d) Monsters.

5. What does the landlord's son, who attempts to fill in as a father figure on a camping trip, forget?
(a) How to light a fire.
(b) Miller's first name.
(c) To show up.
(d) The tent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Miller asks for what from the reader?

2. Miller writes specifically to appeal to what type of humor?

3. Miller suggests that submission to God's will allows God to do what for humans?

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

5. In Chapter 1, Miller discusses several attempts to find a father figure during what part of his life?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. In Chapter 6, Miller's tone changes. He also more exclusively addresses his intended audience. How does his tone change and what positive and negative effect can these changes have on the reader?

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

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

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

6. In Chapter 5, Spirituality, Miller uses two paradoxes (contradictory statements or actions) to describes his relationship with God? What are they?

7. Miller suggests that as a child he was attracted to stories about dwarfs and dragons. In particular, he wanted to own and ride a dragon. He believes that the dragon took on the role of a father figure. What characteristics of the dragon do you believe remind him of a father figure?

8. In Chapter 2, Miller again tells stories that span his life. What is the effect of this storytelling approach on the reader?

9. Miller's mother attempts to find father figures for her son in several places. Describe Miller's mother's efforts. How successful were these efforts?

10. Miller states that his experience in which he did not get to enter a derby car in the race did not affect him. Do you agree? Why or why not?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,258 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample