Lament for a Son Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

Nicholas Wolterstorff
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 128 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Lament for a Son Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

Nicholas Wolterstorff
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 128 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 9: p. 92-103.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One of Nicholas's friends had a son who died several weeks before Eric. How did this young man die?
(a) Brain tumor.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Stroke.
(d) Leukemia.

2. What author, in writing about the death of his wife was plainly angry with God?
(a) John Piper.
(b) Watchman Nee.
(c) C. S. Lewis.
(d) Oswald Sanders.

3. If Eric's life was a gift, what does Nicholas say he and his family must resist?
(a) Amnesia.
(b) Pain.
(c) Doubt.
(d) Fear.

4. What was Nicholas watching when the thought overwhelmed him that he did not understand suffering?
(a) A mother weeping in a cemetery.
(b) The flicker of orange-pink evening light on almost still water.
(c) The flicker of red-gold morning light on wind-blown waves.
(d) A father carrying his dead son.

5. How old does Nicholas think Eric might have been in a photo that shows him holding a fish longer than he was?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Eric's belongings did the undertaker return that were unscathed?

2. What does Nicholas say that he does now instead of rowing?

3. When Nicholas mentions stories written about humanity's odyssey on earth, what is one story he mentions?

4. Where was there a furious dispute over the future direction of architecture?

5. On page 99, what does Nicholas say that the family has to do now that Eric is gone?

(see the answer key)

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