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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the difference between the author's and H.'s sufferings?
(a) There was no difference.
(b) The experiences changed all the time without warning.
(c) One of them did not suffer at all.
(d) They were very different experiences.

2. In what sense does the author feel isolated from his wife?
(a) He cannot express his fears to her.
(b) He cannot enter into her experience of dying.
(c) He thinks she will not miss him.
(d) She cannot come home from the hospital.

3. According to the author, what never repeats itself?
(a) Friends.
(b) Nature.
(c) God.
(d) History.

4. What does the author say is human history's cruel joke?
(a) That there is no after life.
(b) That this life makes no sense.
(c) That God is hateful.
(d) That there is no promise in Jesus's life and death.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom has the author had no difficulty praying?

2. Who quoted to the author, "Do not mourn like those that have no hope."?

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

4. In what way does the author crave to be touched by H.?

5. In what sense does the author agree that H. is with God, as some friends say?

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