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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what/whom have the author's notes been throughout the book?
(a) Only about H.
(b) Only about the author.
(c) God, the author, and H.
(d) The author's children and God.

2. What is the only thing the author thinks matters about his anger toward God?
(a) That the author's anger is justified.
(b) That his anger could bring H. back.
(c) That the author release his anger.
(d) That God is a healer or a sadist.

3. What does the author think about people who are not offended by iconoclasm?
(a) They are God's chosen people.
(b) They are fools.
(c) Bless them.
(d) Curse them.

4. At the beginning of Chapter Four, what impossible result does the author admit he thought his records could achieve?
(a) Make a map of sorrow.
(b) Bring H. back.
(c) Bring happiness to his children.
(d) End the author's grief.

5. Thinking so much about his grief causes the author to doubt what?
(a) His love for H.
(b) His sanity.
(c) His memories of H.
(d) His faith in God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say is the obvious danger of images?

2. What ancient civilization thought that embalming the dead lessened death's effect?

3. What feeling is the author surprised to discover that grief resembles?

4. Who tries to comfort Lewis with a biblical story about Jesus?

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

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