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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do some of the author's friends try to console him?
(a) That the author will love again.
(b) That H. is no longer suffering.
(c) That the author's children bring him comfort.
(d) With the promise of "reunions on the further shore."

2. In his grief, where did the author want to revisit?
(a) The United States.
(b) The places he and H. had been happiest.
(c) France.
(d) Confession.

3. Of what emotion does grief remind the author?
(a) Gratitude.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Fear.
(d) Acceptance.

4. At the end of Chapter Two, what does the author think about his reflections?
(a) That the author is close to understanding why his wife died.
(b) That God will answer all of the author's questions.
(c) That he is growing closer to God.
(d) They are senseless.

5. In what discipline was the author educated?
(a) Theology.
(b) Architecture.
(c) Medieval History.
(d) Physics.

Short Answer Questions

1. The day after the author's rant in Chapter Two, what does he ask himself about God?

2. In Chapter Two, what does the author say is one more name for death?

3. Who is the main character in the book?

4. How does the author decide he must consider death?

5. According to the author, if he searched the universe for H., what would happen?

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