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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author state causes human beings to regard God falsely?
(a) Organized religion.
(b) Tainted and depraved ideas.
(c) The devil.
(d) The way God tests people.

2. How will the author respond to being told the consolations of religion?
(a) He will be consoled.
(b) He will argue from Scripture.
(c) He will be persuaded.
(d) He will assume the speaker does not understand.

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

4. What practical problem did H.'s death solve?
(a) The author learned how to cope with grief.
(b) The author learned how to confront his own mortality.
(c) The author cannot put her ahead of God.
(d) It bridged the author's distance from God.

5. At the beginning of the third chapter, what does the author say is the reason he does not think about H. all the time?
(a) Work and conversation get in the way.
(b) He is writing a book.
(c) His children take up his time.
(d) He tries to distract himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What words of comfort take on new meaning for the author in the fourth chapter?

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

3. What does the author say is the obvious danger of images?

4. How does the author decide he must consider death?

5. Whom does Lewis' sons remind him of?

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