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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the author think it means if human suffering is unnecessary?
(a) That human suffering is an illusion.
(b) That humans bring on their own suffering.
(c) Either there is no God or He is bad.
(d) That Satan causes suffering.

3. Who has just died?
(a) The author's mother.
(b) The author's wife.
(c) The author's neighbor.
(d) The author's best friend.

4. What does the author say cannot compare with physical pain?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Grief.
(c) Fear.
(d) Death.

5. What aspect of an afterlife does the author say differs completely from this life?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Reincarnation.
(c) Hell.
(d) Burial.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say is human history's cruel joke?

2. Who causes the author the most confusion?

3. What action does the author say is useless if God hurts to heal?

4. What does the author conclude in Chapter Three was the purpose of his earlier rage against God?

5. Who tries to comfort Lewis with a biblical story about Jesus?

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