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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why could the author's records not achieve his intended purpose?
(a) Because the author cannot understand his own thoughts.
(b) Because sorrow never ends.
(c) Because the author stopped recording his thoughts.
(d) Because sorrow is a process, not a state.

2. What purpose do images of H. serve for the author?
(a) They remind the author of H.'s exact presence.
(b) They remind the author of God.
(c) They are links.
(d) They bring Christ to mind.

3. To what length would the author have gone if it could have cured H.'s cancer?
(a) Turned his back on God.
(b) Become a priest.
(c) Died in her place.
(d) Never seen her again.

4. What motivated the author's attempt to hit back at God?
(a) Not understanding God's intention.
(b) Religious conversion.
(c) Acceptance of H.'s death.
(d) Respect.

5. What action does the author say is useless if God hurts to heal?
(a) Thinking one can reverse any pain.
(b) Committing suicide.
(c) Begging God for tenderness.
(d) Trying to heal oneself.

6. How many hours of healthy sleep did the author finally get in Chapter Three?
(a) 24 hours.
(b) 12 hours.
(c) 10 hours.
(d) 8 hours.

7. What metaphor does the author use to describe grief in the beginning of the fourth chapter?
(a) A long, winding valley.
(b) A house of cards.
(c) A hopeless child.
(d) A broken trolley.

8. What does the author finally decide in Chapter Four he must get on with accomplishing?
(a) Continuing his career.
(b) Following the two great commandments.
(c) Finishing his book.
(d) Rediscovering happiness.

9. What does the author say cannot compare with physical pain?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Fear.
(c) Death.
(d) Grief.

10. In Chapter Four, what does the author decide loving H. is like?
(a) Loving a lie.
(b) Loving God.
(c) Loving the author's self.
(d) Loving a memory.

11. Why does the author walk all he can?
(a) So he can go to bed tired.
(b) To avoid his feelings.
(c) To work off his frustration.
(d) For his physical health.

12. What did the Incarnation achieve, according to the author?
(a) It created a religion.
(b) It ruined all previous ideas of the Messiah.
(c) It raised Lazarus from the dead.
(d) It saved humanity.

13. Who does the author think might have a special ability for the miracle of love?
(a) The woman.
(b) One's minister.
(c) The man.
(d) One's children.

14. Why does the author ask God to treat H. tenderly?
(a) Because only God can make H. happy.
(b) Because the author can no longer help her.
(c) Because of her terrible suffering in life.
(d) Because everyone should be treated tenderly by God.

15. What does the author think is the worst thing he could wish for H.?
(a) For her to come back.
(b) For her to be with God.
(c) For her to remain gone.
(d) For her to have lived longer.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how many human questions does the author estimate cannot be answered by God?

2. How many books does the author use to record his reflections?

3. What does the author suspect is the real answer to reality?

4. What will happen every time the author builds a new house of cards?

5. What does the author think might be true about his unconscious?

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