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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author finally decide in Chapter Four he must get on with accomplishing?
(a) Following the two great commandments.
(b) Continuing his career.
(c) Rediscovering happiness.
(d) Finishing his book.

2. At the end of Chapter Two, what does the author think about his reflections?
(a) That the author is close to understanding why his wife died.
(b) That he is growing closer to God.
(c) They are senseless.
(d) That God will answer all of the author's questions.

3. What motivated the author's attempt to hit back at God?
(a) Religious conversion.
(b) Acceptance of H.'s death.
(c) Respect.
(d) Not understanding God's intention.

4. What action does the author say is useless if God hurts to heal?
(a) Trying to heal oneself.
(b) Committing suicide.
(c) Thinking one can reverse any pain.
(d) Begging God for tenderness.

5. What was the difference between the author's and H.'s sufferings?
(a) The experiences changed all the time without warning.
(b) There was no difference.
(c) They were very different experiences.
(d) One of them did not suffer at all.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Two, what does the author say is one more name for death?

2. In Chapter Three, to what does the author compare grief?

3. What does the author ask if he is doing with his fallen house of cards?

4. What sense does the first chapter end with?

5. About how many human questions does the author estimate cannot be answered by God?

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