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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 think is the worst thing he could wish for H.?
(a) For her to be with God.
(b) For her to come back.
(c) For her to have lived longer.
(d) For her to remain gone.

2. What important personal process does the author begin in the course of Chapter Three?
(a) Rebuiilding his faith.
(b) Writing another book.
(c) Leaving his career.
(d) Moving to a new home.

3. What benefit might the author enjoy by praising God?
(a) Enoying H.
(b) Closeness with his children.
(c) Peace of mind.
(d) Acceptance of H.'s passing.

4. 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) His children take up his time.
(c) He is writing a book.
(d) He tries to distract himself.

5. What does the author think lessens the horror of a terminal illness?
(a) Studying about the disease.
(b) Living with it.
(c) When death finally comes.
(d) Contracting it oneself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author conclude it is foolish to expect from the dead?

2. What is the "state" of heaven, according to the author?

3. Who is the source of the author's problem?

4. What does the author conclude is God's nature?

5. What aspect of an afterlife does the author say differs completely from this life?

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