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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What experience helps the author make a decision about God's nature?
(a) The author's suffering.
(b) When God withholds His comfort.
(c) When the author stops grieving.
(d) H.'s suffering.

3. At the end of Chapter Two, what does the author think about his reflections?
(a) That he is growing closer to God.
(b) That the author is close to understanding why his wife died.
(c) They are senseless.
(d) That God will answer all of the author's questions.

4. To what does the author compare physical pain?
(a) A life without God.
(b) A broken relationship.
(c) A steady barrage in a wartime trench.
(d) A concentration camp.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author think happens to our memories of people?

2. Who has just died?

3. What does the author think might have influenced his love for H.?

4. What is the only thing, according to the author, that tests the reality of a belief?

5. What disease took both of the author's parents?

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