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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 H.'s real name?
(a) Sylvia Plath.
(b) Norma Lewis.
(c) Helen Lewis.
(d) Joy Gresham.

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

3. Who said, "Why have you forsaken me?"
(a) H.
(b) The author.
(c) Jesus.
(d) A friend.

4. What does the author say happens when we experience any kind of pain?
(a) We need to share it with others.
(b) We barely notice it.
(c) It pulls us toward it.
(d) We run from it.

5. What quality best characterizes the author's reflections?
(a) Logic.
(b) Anger.
(c) Fear.
(d) Irrationality.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lewis begin his reflections?

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

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

4. According to the author, what would happen if two lovers died at the exact some moment?

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

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