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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lewis think his friends react to talking about H.?
(a) With eagerness.
(b) With embarrassment.
(c) Without sympathy.
(d) With sorrow.

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

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

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

5. At the very end of the second chapter, to what or whom does the author compare himself?
(a) A ship missing an engine.
(b) The Prodigal Son.
(c) Job.
(d) A missing link.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the author think about a God who has created a world of so much beauty?

3. What does the author think lessens the horror of a terminal illness?

4. In what sense does the author feel isolated from his wife?

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

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