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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the author say cannot compare with physical pain?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Grief.
(c) Death.
(d) Fear.

3. What can the author's grief and memories never achieve?
(a) Easing or aggravating H.'s past anguish.
(b) Bringing H. back.
(c) Restoring the author's faith in God.
(d) Giving the author comfort.

4. Where does the author feel his loss the most?
(a) At work.
(b) In his body.
(c) At the park.
(d) In his home.

5. Why does the author think that grief feels like suspense?
(a) One experiences frustrating habitual impulses.
(b) One never knows when grief will end.
(c) One does not know why grief is so painful.
(d) One does not know what grief really means.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Four, what does the author suddenly feel walking through nature?

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

3. What metaphor does the author use with which to compare with a God who hurts to heal?

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

5. Whom does Lewis' sons remind him of?

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