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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Lewis' state of mind?
(a) Acceptance.
(b) Agony.
(c) Denial.
(d) Bitterness.

2. 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.

3. What does the author conclude it is foolish to expect from the dead?
(a) To have conversations with them.
(b) For them to report what Heaven is like.
(c) For them to wait for their loved ones.
(d) For them to come back to life.

4. How does the author view the world that H. left behind?
(a) Engaging.
(b) Hostile.
(c) Welcoming.
(d) Uninteresting and trivial.

5. What literary genre is A Grief Observed?
(a) Non-fiction.
(b) Horror.
(c) Suspense.
(d) Fiction.

Short Answer Questions

1. What disease took both of the author's parents?

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

3. Who said, "Why have you forsaken me?"

4. How does God seem to respond to the author's agony?

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

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