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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long were the author and H. married?
(a) Three years.
(b) Six months.
(c) Ten years.
(d) One year.

2. What feeling is the author surprised to discover that grief resembles?
(a) Confusion.
(b) Anger.
(c) Fear.
(d) Love.

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

4. Where is Jesus's agony on the cross recorded?
(a) The Bible.
(b) One of the author's textbooks.
(c) The Dead Sea Scrolls.
(d) A Grief Observed.

5. In his grief, where did the author want to revisit?
(a) The United States.
(b) France.
(c) The places he and H. had been happiest.
(d) Confession.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What literary genre is A Grief Observed?

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

4. Who is the main character in the book?

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

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