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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What pseudonym did the author use?
(a) C. S. Lewis.
(b) N. W. Clerk.
(c) J. R. R. Tolkien.
(d) Joy Gresham.

2. What does it mean if there is a good God, according to the author?
(a) Human suffering is unnecessary.
(b) Human suffering is necessary.
(c) Human beings do not suffer.
(d) Suffering is a human invention.

3. What experience helps the author make a decision about God's nature?
(a) The author's suffering.
(b) When the author stops grieving.
(c) When God withholds His comfort.
(d) H.'s suffering.

4. What aspect of an afterlife does the author say differs completely from this life?
(a) Reincarnation.
(b) Heaven.
(c) Burial.
(d) Hell.

5. As Chapter Three begins, what does the author record that he is afraid his grief will turn into?
(a) Rage.
(b) Dead flatness.
(c) Distorted memories of H.
(d) Unending sorrow.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do some of the author's friends try to console him?

2. Who has just died?

3. What does the author finally decide about the reality of death?

4. What is the only thing, according to the author, that tests the reality of a belief?

5. What does the author ask if he is doing with his fallen house of cards?

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