A Grief Observed Test | Final Test - Hard

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A Grief Observed Test | Final Test - Hard

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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What one thing has sufficient force to rattle one's faith, according to the author in Chapter Three?

2. What metaphor does the author use with which to compare with a God who hurts to heal?

3. What does the author finally decide in Chapter Four he must get on with accomplishing?

4. Why does the author think that grief feels like suspense?

5. What important personal process does the author begin in the course of Chapter Three?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter Three, when does Lewis acknowledge that he does not think about H.? What is life like when Lewis is not thinking about H.?

2. What does Lewis mean when he writes that he can believe that God is a vet? Conversely, how is it difficult for Lewis to think of God as a vet?

3. What are Lewis's reflections about images in the fourth chapter?

4. How does the consolation that previously so wearied Lewis, "She is in God's hands", strike Lewis by the last chapter?

5. For Lewis, why is a good God as formidable as God, the Cosmic Sadist? Describe the differences between the two ideas.

6. How does Lewis admit that he goes about restoring his faith?

7. What human conditions does Lewis admit that he can never fully examine?

8. What enormous gain in his sense of God and of H. has Lewis made by the fourth chapter?

9. What is an imperfect religious image with which Lewis is familiar? What is Lewis's reflection on this image?

10. In Chapter Three, what does Lewis come to see about his love for H. and his faith in God?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

For the first two chapters, Lewis is immersed in emotions, in raw agony. In the third chapter, he takes a significant turn. As Lewis points his ability to reason toward his grief, he begins another stage in the process of his grieving.

1) What questions does Lewis ask about H.'s death and what it means for the whole of life? When Lewis writes about the "problem of the universe," what does he mean?

2) Describe the difference between what Lewis believed before H. died and what he questions after she dies. What is the main difference between the two conditions of belief? What is important about the difference for the possibility of a sane and rational life of faith?

3) Regarding faith, what Lewis believed prior to H.'s death has everything to do with his faith in God and in what he had been taught. How does Lewis think about his faith after H. died?

Essay Topic 2

C.S. Lewis was a religious scholar. He brought deep knowledge to his reflections on grief. He also was familiar, prior to H.'s death and certainly after she died, with religious platitudes. Write a developed essay that covers what Lewis says he will discuss about religion and how he will respond. Also discuss what Lewis will not discuss about religion and what he will assume from that particular topic. Describe why Lewis distinguishes among these topics.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the different ways that Lewis considers God. Specify each of Lewis's characterizations of God and what each means to Lewis. With which, if any, of Lewis's characterizations about God does Lewis end the book?

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