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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does the author decide he must consider death?
(a) As a brief parting.
(b) As an illusion.
(c) As a permanent separation.
(d) As God's punishment.
2. According to the author, what feeling does a dying person experience?
(a) Fear of destruction.
(b) Relief that pain will end.
(c) Joy to be going to Heaven.
(d) Sorrow to leave one's partner.
3. What kind of understanding did the author have of H.'s dying?
(a) An understanding of knowing death was approaching.
(b) An understanding of the physical pain.
(c) An intellectual understanding.
(d) The same understanding that H. had.
4. How do some of the author's friends try to console him?
(a) That the author's children bring him comfort.
(b) That H. is no longer suffering.
(c) That the author will love again.
(d) With the promise of "reunions on the further shore."
5. What sense does the first chapter end with?
(a) Satisfaction.
(b) Resolution.
(c) Futility.
(d) Uncertainty.
Short Answer Questions
1. In the second chapter, what does the author reason God must do if He hurts people so in this life?
2. In what discipline was the author educated?
3. In his grief, where did the author want to revisit?
4. What does the author say is human history's cruel joke?
5. What disease took both of the author's parents?
Short Essay Questions
1. What aspects of religion is Lewis glad to discuss? What aspect of religion is Lewis not willing to accept?
2. What is it about cancer that prompts some of Lewis' reflections?
3. In Chapter One, Lewis reflects upon marriage, religion and God. What is one thing that Lewis admits that marriage has done for him?
4. How does Lewis think people react when they encounter him?
5. Why can Lewis not talk to his children about their mother?
6. What is one aspect of the supposed consolation that H. continues that troubles Lewis?
7. Lewis decided to record his reflections to get all his feelings and thoughts out. What does Lewis reflect might be a downside to his journal?
8. What do consoling people tell Lewis about where H. is after her death? How does Lewis interpret these attempts to console him?
9. Why does Lewis think that grief is like fear? Describe the ways in which Lewis experiences fear.
10. What impresses Lewis about his realization of the man he had not seen for 10 years and Lewis's actual memories of the man?
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