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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 think about a God who has created a world of so much beauty?
(a) Such a God could not give people senseless pain.
(b) Such a God can do anything He chooses.
(c) Suffering is necessary to balance the beauty.
(d) Such a God is not interested in human suffering.

2. What does the author prefer to the "feelings, feelings, feelings"?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Rational thought.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Work as a distraction.

3. Of what emotion does grief remind the author?
(a) Acceptance.
(b) Gratitude.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Fear.

4. What do Bridge-players tell the author makes the game serious?
(a) Friends gathering.
(b) Nothing makes Bridge serious.
(c) Concentration.
(d) Money.

5. According to the author, if he searched the universe for H., what would happen?
(a) He would find God.
(b) He would be left even more lonely.
(c) He would not find her.
(d) He would find her.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the author think might have influenced his faith in God?

3. Why does the author think that grief feels like suspense?

4. What is the "state" of heaven, according to the author?

5. When does the author claim he is at his worst?

(see the answer key)

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