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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What feeling characterizes the second section?
(a) Creativity.
(b) Hopelessness.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Fear.

2. How does the author say a mother who has lost a child responds to words of comfort about where the child is?
(a) She wants to join the child.
(b) She is not comforted.
(c) She is grateful.
(d) She is relieved.

3. What physical condition does the author think his feelings resemble?
(a) A concussion.
(b) A severe headache.
(c) An ulcer.
(d) A broken heart.

4. What does the author think about a God who has created a world of so much beauty?
(a) Such a God is not interested in human suffering.
(b) Such a God can do anything He chooses.
(c) Such a God could not give people senseless pain.
(d) Suffering is necessary to balance the beauty.

5. If death is real, what does the author conclude about it?
(a) That its existence is irrelevant.
(b) That the author has no reason to keep living.
(c) That God does not care if people die.
(d) That it matters more than anything.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the author rereads his reflections, how does he react?

2. How will the author respond if talked to about the "truth of religion"?

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

4. What sense does the first chapter end with?

5. What is A Grief Observed a series of?

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