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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what/whom have the author's notes been throughout the book?
(a) God, the author, and H.
(b) Only about H.
(c) The author's children and God.
(d) Only about the author.

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

3. What sense does the first chapter end with?
(a) Satisfaction.
(b) Futility.
(c) Resolution.
(d) Uncertainty.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For whose sake was the author's plea, "Come back"?

2. What do Bridge-players tell the author makes the game serious?

3. What is H.'s real name?

4. Who is the source of the author's problem?

5. What action does the author say is useless if God hurts to heal?

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