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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what sense does the author feel isolated from his wife?
(a) She cannot come home from the hospital.
(b) He cannot express his fears to her.
(c) He cannot enter into her experience of dying.
(d) He thinks she will not miss him.

2. According to the author, what would happen if two lovers died at the exact some moment?
(a) They would go to Heaven together.
(b) It would be as if they never died.
(c) They would not recognize each other.
(d) They would still die alone.

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

4. According to the author, what feeling does a dying person experience?
(a) Fear of destruction.
(b) Sorrow to leave one's partner.
(c) Relief that pain will end.
(d) Joy to be going to Heaven.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is A Grief Observed a series of?

2. What physical condition does the author think his feelings resemble?

3. If death is real, what does the author conclude about it?

4. What happens when the author tries to remember H.'s face?

5. According to the author, if he searched the universe for H., what would happen?

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