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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 many books does the author use to record his reflections?
(a) 10.
(b) 7.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.
2. What does the author say is the obvious danger of images?
(a) They make people crazy.
(b) They do not look like their subjects.
(c) They are not the real thing.
(d) They fade.
3. Why can the body suffer so much more than the mind, according to the author?
(a) The mind is capable of evasion.
(b) Because God made it that way.
(c) The mind never suffers.
(d) The body is stronger than the mind.
4. Against what were the author's records written?
(a) Losing memory of H.
(b) Insanity.
(c) Total collapse.
(d) Loss of the author's career.
5. By Chapter Four, how many gains does the author claim to have made?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 0.
(d) 4.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do Bridge-players tell the author makes the game serious?
2. What words of comfort take on new meaning for the author in the fourth chapter?
3. What purpose do images of H. serve for the author?
4. Why does the author walk all he can?
5. What does it mean if there is a good God, according to the author?
Short Essay Questions
1. At nearly the end of the book, what kind of answer does Lewis receive from God? Briefly, explain what the answer means.
2. How does Lewis admit that he goes about restoring his faith?
3. What is the difference between how Lewis felt at the beginning of the book and how he feels at the end of his reflections?
4. What are Lewis's reflections about images in the fourth chapter?
5. Toward what does Lewis turn when he becomes overwhelmed by feelings?
6. What is an imperfect religious image with which Lewis is familiar? What is Lewis's reflection on this image?
7. At the beginning of Chapter Four, why does Lewis decide that he will not fill more than four journals?
8. What hopeful similes does Lewis use to describe a moment he experiences one night?
9. What does Lewis mean when he writes that all reality is iconoclastic? How does this statement relate to Lewis's thoughts about his love for H.?
10. Why does Lewis think that H.'s physical anguish might not have ended when she died? What images does Lewis use when reflecting on what happens to H. after she died?
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