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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 think that H. would have thought must happen to weak faith?
(a) That such faith must be knocked down.
(b) That such faith must be held closely.
(c) That weak faith has to grow stronger.
(d) Religion must build up such faith.

2. How long were the author and H. married?
(a) Six months.
(b) Ten years.
(c) Three years.
(d) One year.

3. How does God seem to respond to the author's agony?
(a) With a feeling that Lewis' wife continued to live.
(b) With the gift of comfort.
(c) With silence.
(d) With a sense of nearness to Lewis.

4. What does the author finally decide about the reality of death?
(a) That it is an illusion.
(b) That is certainly exists.
(c) That it brings freedom from suffering.
(d) That it is a cheap trick.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of understanding did the author have of H.'s dying?

3. What does Lewis think people who grieve should do?

4. Why does the author think that grief feels like suspense?

5. What does the author say combats the idea of God's mindless cruelty?

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