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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what sense does the author agree that H. is with God, as some friends say?
(a) Like God, H. responds to prayer.
(b) Like God, H. is unimaginable.
(c) Like God, the author must believe H. exists without proof.
(d) Like God, H. is all-knowing.

2. 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) If it's rational to believe in a bad God.
(c) If he has found acceptance that H. is gone.
(d) Whether or not God exists.

3. What quality best characterizes the author's reflections?
(a) Anger.
(b) Irrationality.
(c) Logic.
(d) Fear.

4. Rather than relying upon his memory of his wife, what does the author want?
(a) To replace her with a new partner.
(b) For God to return her.
(c) To dwell on her sweetness.
(d) To forget she ever lived.

5. What pseudonym did the author use?
(a) Joy Gresham.
(b) N. W. Clerk.
(c) J. R. R. Tolkien.
(d) C. S. Lewis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say combats the idea of God's mindless cruelty?

2. Who said, "Why have you forsaken me?"

3. Who is H.?

4. What sense does the first chapter end with?

5. In Chapter Two, what does the author say is one more name for death?

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