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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. The author uses the prologue to do which of the following?
2. The author wants the reader to encourage and relate to what type of men?
3. What does John MacMurray do for a living?
4. Chapter 5 has a high degree of tension and describes a significant turning point in Miller's life. In literature this is referred as the _____________.
5. What audience does Miller address in Chapter 6?
Short Essay Questions
1. Chapter 5 is considered the "climax" of this book. What does this mean?
2. Miller identifies several areas in his life affected by not having a father. What are these areas?
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. 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?
6. 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?
7. In Chapter 1, Miller describes meeting Mr. Gentiles as one of the key turning points in his life. Why does Miller believe this?
8. In Chapter 4, Miller begins to understand the importance of a relationship with God as a "father figure." What does he learn?
9. In Chapter 5, Spirituality, Miller uses two paradoxes (contradictory statements or actions) to describes his relationship with God? What are they?
10. In Chapter 5, Miller begins to identify the positive and negative characteristics of God's love. What are these characteristics?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Chapter 11, the author addresses integrity. He does not define integrity. Instead, he gives examples of integrity and provides stories about how he learned about integrity. Define integrity as Miller uses it in the context of this book. Compare and contrast Miller's concept of integrity with your understanding of integrity. How are they similar? Different? What is missing, if anything, in Miller's definition? What would you add or change about his definition? Why or Why not?
Essay Topic 2
In Chapters 2 and 4, Miller identifies three key turning points in his life: a.) David Gentiles; b.) reading President Eisenhower's autobiography; c.) taking a harrowing trip up a mountain with John MacMurray to photograph a sunset. Discuss these turning points and what Miller learns from each. What do these turning points have in common? What makes these turning points in his life?
Essay Topic 3
This book is a written in memoir format not as an autobiography. What are the differences between the two? If this book had been written as an autobiography how would it have been written differently? What, if any, impact would writing this book as a autobiography have on the intended audience, the message, the reader, etc.?
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