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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does the author compare falling in love with H.'s memory?
(a) Incest.
(b) The next best thing to having H. with him.
(c) Insanity.
(d) Adultery.

2. How does Lewis think his friends react to talking about H.?
(a) With eagerness.
(b) Without sympathy.
(c) With sorrow.
(d) With embarrassment.

3. What theory about God does the author dismiss?
(a) That God causes people to die.
(b) That God is close to those who suffer.
(c) That God is a figment of human imagination.
(d) That God does not love human beings.

4. What does the author conclude about the way that lovers feel about the other one's death?
(a) The feelings are overpowering.
(b) The feelings are in opposition.
(c) The feelings are exactly the same.
(d) The feelings are complementary.

5. How does the author decide he must consider death?
(a) As God's punishment.
(b) As a brief parting.
(c) As a permanent separation.
(d) As an illusion.

Short Answer Questions

1. For the author, what are human characterizations of God?

2. What does the author state causes human beings to regard God falsely?

3. What feeling characterizes the second section?

4. What does the author think lessens the horror of a terminal illness?

5. Of what emotion does grief remind the author?

(see the answer key)

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