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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. As a child, what type of clubs does Miller think men participated in?
(a) Clubs that only let certain people in.
(b) Country clubs.
(c) Clubs that shared secret information about women and cars.
(d) Card clubs.

2. What audience does Miller address in Chapter 6?
(a) Primarily men who grew up without fathers.
(b) All persons who grew up without a father.
(c) Only women who are raising boys as a single mother.
(d) This chapter does not address anyone in particular.

3. The author wants the reader to encourage and relate to what type of men?
(a) Men who are not yet fathers.
(b) Men who are fathers.
(c) Men who grew up or are being raised without fathers.
(d) Men with fathers.

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

5. According to Miller, another necessary characteristic of God's love that is required in father-son love is the ability to do what?
(a) Make people well.
(b) Forgive people.
(c) Punish people.
(d) Make decisions for humans.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Miller's mother attempts to find father figures for her son by involving him in which community organization?

3. This prologue is does which of the following?

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

5. What does Miller's search to understand himself as a child without a father lead to?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. 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?

6. 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?

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

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

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

10. 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?

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