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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author finally decide about the reality of death?
(a) That it is an illusion.
(b) That is certainly exists.
(c) That it is a cheap trick.
(d) That it brings freedom from suffering.

2. Who has just died?
(a) The author's wife.
(b) The author's neighbor.
(c) The author's best friend.
(d) The author's mother.

3. By the end of the second chapter, what does the author think about human contemplation of God?
(a) If humans think hard enough, they can understand God.
(b) Human beings should not try to accurately describe God.
(c) God guides human thought along the right course.
(d) It is the highest human endeavor.

4. What is the "state" of heaven, according to the author?
(a) Where one "puts away childish things."
(b) "Where the former things have passed away."
(c) Where the dead live in eternal bliss.
(d) Where God answers all questions.

5. What theory about God does the author dismiss?
(a) That God does not love human beings.
(b) That God is close to those who suffer.
(c) That God causes people to die.
(d) That God is a figment of human imagination.

Short Answer Questions

1. What action does the author say is useless if God hurts to heal?

2. How does the author close the second chapter?

3. How does God seem to respond to the author's agony?

4. In Chapter Two, of whom does the author decide he needs to think more?

5. With what same quality does the author think his love for H. shared?

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