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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the author feel his loss the most?
(a) At work.
(b) At the park.
(c) In his home.
(d) In his body.

2. What pseudonym did the author use?
(a) N. W. Clerk.
(b) Joy Gresham.
(c) C. S. Lewis.
(d) J. R. R. Tolkien.

3. What does the author think might have influenced his love for H.?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) A desire to have children.
(c) Reflection of the author's love of God.
(d) Egoism.

4. What metaphor does the author use with which to compare with a God who hurts to heal?
(a) A cosmic sadist.
(b) A surgeon with wholly good intentions.
(c) A frustrated parent.
(d) A trickster.

5. What quality did the author admire so much about H.?
(a) Her love for their children.
(b) Her wisdom.
(c) Her sense of humor.
(d) Her detachment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What literary genre is A Grief Observed?

2. What does the author think it means if human suffering is unnecessary?

3. At the very end of the second chapter, to what or whom does the author compare himself?

4. According to the author, what feeling does a dying person experience?

5. In the second chapter, what person does the author come to realize he had little confidence in?

(see the answer key)

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