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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. At the very end of the second chapter, to what or whom does the author compare himself?
(a) A missing link.
(b) Job.
(c) The Prodigal Son.
(d) A ship missing an engine.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lewis begin his reflections?

2. What religious form would an introduction of a bad God take, according to the author?

3. What happens when the author tries to remember H.'s face?

4. How will the author respond to being told the consolations of religion?

5. In what discipline was the author educated?

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