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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 God seem to respond to the author's agony?
(a) With silence.
(b) With a feeling that Lewis' wife continued to live.
(c) With a sense of nearness to Lewis.
(d) With the gift of comfort.

2. How does the author know that the end of this life is all about heavenly reunions?
(a) Reality never repeats.
(b) He and H. discussed it.
(c) He had a vision.
(d) It says so in the Bible.

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

4. How do some of the author's friends try to console him?
(a) That the author will love again.
(b) That the author's children bring him comfort.
(c) That H. is no longer suffering.
(d) With the promise of "reunions on the further shore."

5. What quality did the author admire so much about H.?
(a) Her wisdom.
(b) Her love for their children.
(c) Her sense of humor.
(d) Her detachment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What disease took both of the author's parents?

2. In his grief, where did the author want to revisit?

3. In the first chapter, who does the author say had died several years ago?

4. Who causes the author the most confusion?

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

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