View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter Three, what is the author finally able to do?
(a) Talk to his children about H.
(b) Tend to his affairs.
(c) Remember H. without forcing it.
(d) Tidy up his house.

2. What action does the author say is useless if God hurts to heal?
(a) Begging God for tenderness.
(b) Thinking one can reverse any pain.
(c) Trying to heal oneself.
(d) Committing suicide.

3. What does the author decide in Chapter Three is more important that being treated gently by God?
(a) There is nothing more important than being treated gently by God.
(b) To surrender to death.
(c) To understand that suffering leads to growth.
(d) To rage against God's will.

4. How long does the author think his suffering will last?
(a) Forever.
(b) As long as it must.
(c) For about a year.
(d) Not much longer.

5. To what length would the author have gone if it could have cured H.'s cancer?
(a) Become a priest.
(b) Never seen her again.
(c) Died in her place.
(d) Turned his back on God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author suspect is the real answer to reality?

2. Thinking so much about his grief causes the author to doubt what?

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

4. Why can the body suffer so much more than the mind, according to the author?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 313 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample