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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. When death is seen as a slicing of what God declared to be, then what is death?
(a) A deep despair.
(b) A dark pit.
(c) The enemy.
(d) A friend.

2. What did Eric spend summers doing while in college?
(a) Teaching art.
(b) Mountain biking.
(c) Fishing.
(d) Computer programming.

3. What sacrament was celebrated at the funeral?
(a) Absolution.
(b) Reconciliation.
(c) Eucharist.
(d) Confirmation.

4. What does Nicholas say that he had to fly across to retrieve Eric's body?
(a) Europe.
(b) Mountains.
(c) The ocean.
(d) The United States.

5. Where does Nicholas say that people need to go to comfort him?
(a) Come close.
(b) Spend time with him and his family.
(c) Visit him at home.
(d) Come to the cemetery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Nicholas experience after his brief moment of resignation?

2. One of Nicholas's friends had a son who died several weeks before Eric. How did this young man die?

3. Which author in the Bible wrote that someone who dies is like a cloud that vanishes?

4. What does Nicholas remember lifting Eric from when he was born?

5. What was read at the grave site?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the liturgy used at Eric's funeral.

2. Why does Nicholas say that Eric's body was his to claim?

3. What does Nicholas say should be said or done with someone who is suffering?

4. What does Nicholas not want to hear as he grieves?

5. What was the dispute over the future direction of architecture?

6. Why would Nicholas get angry with Eric?

7. What does Nicholas say it is to be human?

8. What things remind Nicholas that Eric is gone?

9. Why is it necessary for some to see the body of the one who died?

10. Why did Eric climb the mountain alone?

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