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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As a child and adolescent, who does Miller resent?
(a) Friends who had fathers.
(b) Fathers who left their families.
(c) Rich people.
(d) Authority figures.

2. When Miller decides to trust his mentor, what does he let go of?
(a) His dreams for finding happiness.
(b) A desire to help others.
(c) His dream of finding a man to take the place of his father.
(d) A desire for a family of his own.

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

4. What metaphor does Miller use to describe the role of elders in transferring information to the next generation?
(a) He does not use a metaphor.
(b) Airline pilots radioing weather conditions to the next pilot.
(c) Teachers in high school.
(d) Emergency personnel responding to a community crisis.

5. What does Miller struggle to give up in this journey?
(a) His desire to be perfect.
(b) His bad habits.
(c) His need to be loved by all.
(d) His search for a father.

6. Is Miller's concern with the social problem of all boys who grow up without fathers?
(a) Only slightly, as he is more concerned about his life without a father.
(b) Yes, very much so.
(c) No, he is not concerned at all.
(d) Sometimes he is and sometimes he is not.

7. Miller describes his mother as being exhausted because of him. He learns the real reason she is exhausted. What is this?
(a) Miller's mother works too hard.
(b) Miller's mother drinks too much.
(c) Because her partner left her as a single mother.
(d) Miller's mother is sick.

8. What kind of class does Miller attend at church in Oregon?
(a) New members class.
(b) Bible study.
(c) Confirmation.
(d) Sunday school.

9. Where is Miller offered a home when living in Boring, Oregon?
(a) In a trailer with coworkers.
(b) In a house shared with an elderly person.
(c) In an apartment with friends.
(d) In a garage apartment at the MacMurrays.

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

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

12. What does Miller believe makes one useless in human society?
(a) Being too nice to people.
(b) Having an "I don't care" attitude.
(c) Resisting authority.
(d) Miller did not address this.

13. Miller also remembers watching a documentary on what animal?
(a) Endangered animals.
(b) Orphaned elephants.
(c) Exotic pets.
(d) Beached whales.

14. Where are Miller and John MacMurray when Miller first begins to understand the relationship between God and fathers?
(a) At home.
(b) On a trip up a mountain.
(c) In church.
(d) At work.

15. Miller's mother attempts to find father figures for her son by involving him in which community organization?
(a) After school program.
(b) Boy Scouts.
(c) Cub Scouts.
(d) Little League.

Short Answer Questions

1. Miller asks for what from the reader?

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

3. What does Miller ask God to do?

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. Miller's uses many words to describe his meeting with MacMurray. Which of the following is not a work he used to describe his meeting with MacMurray?

(see the answer keys)

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