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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What quality best characterizes the author's reflections?
(a) Fear.
(b) Irrationality.
(c) Logic.
(d) Anger.

3. What, if any, were H.'s last words?
(a) "I don't want to leave you now."
(b) "I don't want to die."
(c) "I am at peace with God."
(d) She had no last words.

4. Who is H.?
(a) The author's brother.
(b) A faculty member.
(c) The author's wife.
(d) A friend from the author's past.

5. What does the author think about a God who has created a world of so much beauty?
(a) Suffering is necessary to balance the beauty.
(b) Such a God is not interested in human suffering.
(c) Such a God could not give people senseless pain.
(d) Such a God can do anything He chooses.

6. Where does the author determine holds no promise of a happy afterlife?
(a) Religious lithographs.
(b) Academic works.
(c) Hymns.
(d) Scripture.

7. How does the author decide he must consider death?
(a) As a permanent separation.
(b) As a brief parting.
(c) As an illusion.
(d) As God's punishment.

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

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

10. What literary genre is A Grief Observed?
(a) Non-fiction.
(b) Fiction.
(c) Suspense.
(d) Horror.

11. How does the author close the second chapter?
(a) With surrender to the grief.
(b) Without optimism.
(c) With eager hope.
(d) With prayer.

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

13. To what ultimate fate does the author resign himself?
(a) Reunion with H.
(b) Death.
(c) Life with God.
(d) Understanding the meaning of life and death.

14. How does God seem to respond to the author's agony?
(a) With the gift of comfort.
(b) With a sense of nearness to Lewis.
(c) With silence.
(d) With a feeling that Lewis' wife continued to live.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lewis think people who grieve should do?

2. How long were the author and H. married?

3. By the end of the second chapter, what does the author think about human contemplation of God?

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

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

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