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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 kind of relationship does Miller want with a father?
(a) An distant, detached relationship.
(b) A generous, loving relationship.
(c) A personal, intimate relationship.
(d) Miller does not want a relationship with a father.

2. What happens to elephant's behavior when they reach puberty?
(a) They become extremely intelligent.
(b) They become increasingly violent.
(c) They become very sexually aggressive.
(d) They become docile.

3. How does Miller grasp the "God as father" concept, initially?
(a) In a "baby way."
(b) As the perfect explanation for his life.
(c) He resists accepting this idea.
(d) Without question.

4. Who gives Miller the key to his new home?
(a) Cassie MacMurray.
(b) Elle MacMurray.
(c) Terri MacMurray.
(d) John MacMurray.

5. Miller uses these stories about animals to illustrate what point in Chapter 2?
(a) To explain the cause of fatherlessness in the United States.
(b) To find an explanation for his fatherlessness.
(c) To suggest the power of fathers in today's society.
(d) To demonstrate the need for two-parent families in the United States.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another place where Miller and his mother attempt to find father figures for him?

2. Why does Miller's Pinewood Derby Car not make it in the derby race?

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

4. What does Miller state that the dragon reminds him of?

5. Why does Miller not trust the motivations of male authority?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Miller get to Boring, Oregon?

2. Chapter 5 is considered the "climax" of this book. What does this mean?

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

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

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

7. In Chapter 3, Miller admits to being resentful towards authority figures. To whom is he referring and why?

8. Miller describes how on their first musth, young, orphaned elephants go into the wild and find a male mentor who shows them how to be a male elephant. If the young elephant cannot do this, what happens to the young elephant?

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

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

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