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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, what feeling does a dying person experience?
(a) Fear of destruction.
(b) Sorrow to leave one's partner.
(c) Joy to be going to Heaven.
(d) Relief that pain will end.

2. What pseudonym did the author use?
(a) C. S. Lewis.
(b) J. R. R. Tolkien.
(c) Joy Gresham.
(d) N. W. Clerk.

3. If death is real, what does the author conclude about it?
(a) That it matters more than anything.
(b) That its existence is irrelevant.
(c) That the author has no reason to keep living.
(d) That God does not care if people die.

4. What is A Grief Observed a series of?
(a) Short stories.
(b) Essays.
(c) Reflections.
(d) Research papers.

5. Of what disease did H. die?
(a) Brain tumor.
(b) Emphysema.
(c) Leukemia.
(d) Cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the very end of the second chapter, to what or whom does the author compare himself?

2. In his grief, where did the author want to revisit?

3. What does the author say is human history's cruel joke?

4. How do some of the author's friends try to console him?

5. In the first chapter, who does the author say had died several years ago?

(see the answer key)

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