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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 feel isolated from his wife?
(a) She cannot come home from the hospital.
(b) He cannot enter into her experience of dying.
(c) He cannot express his fears to her.
(d) He thinks she will not miss him.

2. What kind of understanding did the author have of H.'s dying?
(a) The same understanding that H. had.
(b) An understanding of knowing death was approaching.
(c) An understanding of the physical pain.
(d) An intellectual understanding.

3. Of what disease did H. die?
(a) Leukemia.
(b) Emphysema.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Brain tumor.

4. What does the author say combats the idea of God's mindless cruelty?
(a) The promise of heaven.
(b) Christ.
(c) Memories of lost loved ones.
(d) Scripture.

5. What does the author state causes human beings to regard God falsely?
(a) The way God tests people.
(b) Tainted and depraved ideas.
(c) The devil.
(d) Organized religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author view the world that H. left behind?

2. When the author rereads his reflections, how does he react?

3. By the end of the second chapter, what does the author think about human contemplation of God?

4. Who is H.?

5. What did the author's friends call him?

(see the answer key)

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