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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Thinking so much about his grief causes the author to doubt what?
(a) His sanity.
(b) His memories of H.
(c) His love for H.
(d) His faith in God.

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

4. For the author, what element does praise always contain?
(a) Gratitude.
(b) Joy.
(c) Humility.
(d) Awe.

5. How does the author say a mother who has lost a child responds to words of comfort about where the child is?
(a) She is relieved.
(b) She is not comforted.
(c) She wants to join the child.
(d) She is grateful.

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom has the author had no difficulty praying?

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

3. Where is Jesus's agony on the cross recorded?

4. How does the author view the world that H. left behind?

5. How do some of the author's friends try to console him?

(see the answer key)

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