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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the author's friends call him?
(a) Jack.
(b) C. S.
(c) Clive Staples.
(d) Clive.

3. What is A Grief Observed a series of?
(a) Reflections.
(b) Essays.
(c) Short stories.
(d) Research papers.

4. What disease took both of the author's parents?
(a) Old age.
(b) Diabetes.
(c) Heart disease.
(d) Cancer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author close the second chapter?

2. What accounts for a mother's response to comforting words regarding a lost child?

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

4. How does Lewis begin his reflections?

5. What does the author state causes human beings to regard God falsely?

(see the answer key)

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