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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sense does the first chapter end with?
(a) Satisfaction.
(b) Futility.
(c) Resolution.
(d) Uncertainty.

2. In the second chapter, what person does the author come to realize he had little confidence in?
(a) The author's children.
(b) H.
(c) B. R.
(d) The author's brother.

3. How many hours of healthy sleep did the author finally get in Chapter Three?
(a) 8 hours.
(b) 12 hours.
(c) 10 hours.
(d) 24 hours.

4. What does the author conclude it is foolish to expect from the dead?
(a) For them to come back to life.
(b) To have conversations with them.
(c) For them to report what Heaven is like.
(d) For them to wait for their loved ones.

5. What feeling characterizes the second section?
(a) Creativity.
(b) Fear.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Hopelessness.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When the author rereads his reflections, how does he react?

3. In Chapter Three, to what does the author compare grief?

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

5. At the beginning of the third chapter, what does the author say is the reason he does not think about H. all the time?

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