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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author conclude it is foolish to expect from the dead?
(a) To have conversations with them.
(b) For them to come back to life.
(c) For them to report what Heaven is like.
(d) For them to wait for their loved ones.

2. Who has just died?
(a) The author's wife.
(b) The author's mother.
(c) The author's neighbor.
(d) The author's best friend.

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

4. How does the author picture the "eternal somethings" that he and H. would be after this life?
(a) Emptiness.
(b) Spheres.
(c) Angels.
(d) Corpses.

5. In the first chapter, who does the author say had died several years ago?
(a) The author's friend.
(b) The author's father.
(c) One of the author's sons.
(d) The author's brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author close the second chapter?

2. What is the only thing, according to the author, that tests the reality of a belief?

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

4. What pseudonym did the author use?

5. If death is real, what does the author conclude about it?

(see the answer key)

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