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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 the author close the second chapter?
(a) Without optimism.
(b) With prayer.
(c) With surrender to the grief.
(d) With eager hope.

2. For whose sake was the author's plea, "Come back"?
(a) For God's sake.
(b) For his children's sake.
(c) The author's own sake.
(d) For H.'s sake.

3. What does the author ask if he is doing with his fallen house of cards?
(a) Leaving the devastation as it is.
(b) Burning the ruins.
(c) Seeking counseling to accept it.
(d) Rebuilding it.

4. In what sense does the author feel isolated from his wife?
(a) He cannot enter into her experience of dying.
(b) He cannot express his fears to her.
(c) She cannot come home from the hospital.
(d) He thinks she will not miss him.

5. When the author rereads his reflections, how does he react?
(a) He erases the reflections.
(b) He wants to stop his reflections.
(c) He asks a friend to edit the work.
(d) He scolds himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the author walk all he can?

2. What does the author think might be true about his unconscious?

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

4. What does the author say is the Lord's "grand enterprise"?

5. What will happen every time the author builds a new house of cards?

(see the answer key)

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