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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author think lessens the horror of a terminal illness?
(a) Contracting it oneself.
(b) Studying about the disease.
(c) Living with it.
(d) When death finally comes.

2. What aspect of an afterlife does the author say differs completely from this life?
(a) Reincarnation.
(b) Hell.
(c) Burial.
(d) Heaven.

3. What ancient civilization thought that embalming the dead lessened death's effect?
(a) Grecian civilization.
(b) Egyptian civilization.
(c) Roman civilization.
(d) Celtic civilization.

4. What is the only thing, according to the author, that tests the reality of a belief?
(a) Love.
(b) Prayer.
(c) A real risk.
(d) Marriage.

5. What disease took both of the author's parents?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) Heart disease.
(c) Old age.
(d) Cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does God seem to respond to the author's agony?

2. What is H.'s real name?

3. In the first chapter, what does the author say is the most "disquieting symptom"?

4. Who causes the author the most confusion?

5. What kind of character did the author's wife have?

(see the answer key)

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