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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 do that upsets one of the church members who is spending time with Miller?
(a) Goes to sleep during church.
(b) Has a mishap with the remote-controlled airplane.
(c) Uses rude language during youth group meetings.
(d) Makes rude noises during youth group meetings.

2. What were MacMurray and Miller going to do when Miller begins to understand the connection between God and fathers?
(a) Attend a Bible-study class.
(b) Camp out.
(c) Attend a school program.
(d) Photograph a sunset.

3. What does Miller's search to understand himself as a child without a father lead to?
(a) A new life.
(b) A spiritual journey.
(c) It does not lead to anything.
(d) An emotional journey.

4. What does Miller ask God to do?
(a) Miller asks God to fnd his real father.
(b) Miller asks God to make him rich.
(c) Miller asks God to father him.
(d) Miller asks God to forgive him.

5. Prior to accepting God as a father, Miller describes his journey as ________.
(a) Purposeful.
(b) Intentional.
(c) Aimless.
(d) Hopeless.

Short Answer Questions

1. Miller warns men not to rely on men with authority who do not do what?

2. Who gives Miller the key to his new home?

3. What is the responsibility of the adult male elephant in a young elephant's life?

4. According to Miller, which of the following is not a positive characteristic of God?

5. What does John MacMurray do for a living?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. How does Miller meet John MacMurray and what roles do John MacMurray and his family play in Miller's life?

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

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

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

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

7. What is the author's intent in writing this book?

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

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

10. In Chapter 4, Miller begins to understand the importance of a relationship with God as a "father figure." What does he learn?

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