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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the author decide he must consider death?
(a) As God's punishment.
(b) As a permanent separation.
(c) As an illusion.
(d) As a brief parting.

2. According to the author, what never repeats itself?
(a) Nature.
(b) God.
(c) History.
(d) Friends.

3. The day after the author's rant in Chapter Two, what does he ask himself about God?
(a) If God can return H. to life.
(b) Whether or not God exists.
(c) If it's rational to believe in a bad God.
(d) If he has found acceptance that H. is gone.

4. In the first chapter, what does the author say is the most "disquieting symptom"?
(a) Wondering where God is.
(b) When he turns his back on his friends.
(c) His ability to continue working.
(d) His deep depression.

5. Why does the author think that Lazarus got a "raw deal"?
(a) Lazarus did not want to rise from the dead.
(b) Lazarus was a martyr.
(c) Lazarus was still ill when he came back to life.
(d) Lazarus had to die twice.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Three, to what does the author compare faith?

2. What is A Grief Observed a series of?

3. Where does the author determine holds no promise of a happy afterlife?

4. For whose sake was the author's plea, "Come back"?

5. What does the author think might have influenced his love for H.?

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