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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the second chapter, what person does the author come to realize he had little confidence in?
(a) H.
(b) B. R.
(c) The author's children.
(d) The author's brother.

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

3. What theory about God does the author dismiss?
(a) That God is close to those who suffer.
(b) That God causes people to die.
(c) That God does not love human beings.
(d) That God is a figment of human imagination.

4. About what is the author's remaining problem in Chapter Four?
(a) About what the author can do.
(b) About how to live.
(c) About feelings and motives.
(d) About what God should do.

5. In Chapter Three, to what does the author compare grief?
(a) A veterinarian.
(b) A lost friendship.
(c) A game of Bridge.
(d) A bomber circling round and round.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lewis think people who grieve should do?

2. What does the author say cannot compare with physical pain?

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

4. What did the Incarnation achieve, according to the author?

5. Thinking so much about his grief causes the author to doubt what?

(see the answer key)

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