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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who has just died?
(a) The author's best friend.
(b) The author's wife.
(c) The author's neighbor.
(d) The author's mother.

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

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. Who is the main character in the book?
(a) God.
(b) C. S. Lewis.
(c) H.
(d) The two sons.

5. What does Lewis think people who grieve should do?
(a) Remove themselves from society.
(b) Talk to their pastors.
(c) Talk freely about their pain.
(d) Grit their teeth and get on with life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author finally decide about the reality of death?

2. Who reacts in shame when the author talks about his wife?

3. What did H. say so often?

4. What quality best characterizes the author's reflections?

5. Who causes the author the most confusion?

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