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

3. What theory about God does the author dismiss?
(a) That God is close to those who suffer.
(b) That God is a figment of human imagination.
(c) That God causes people to die.
(d) That God does not love human beings.

4. What did the author's friends call him?
(a) Jack.
(b) Clive Staples.
(c) C. S.
(d) Clive.

5. How do some of the author's friends try to console him?
(a) With the promise of "reunions on the further shore."
(b) That H. is no longer suffering.
(c) That the author will love again.
(d) That the author's children bring him comfort.

6. What kind of understanding did the author have of H.'s dying?
(a) An understanding of knowing death was approaching.
(b) The same understanding that H. had.
(c) An understanding of the physical pain.
(d) An intellectual understanding.

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

8. Whom does Lewis' sons remind him of?
(a) Their mother.
(b) Himself as a child.
(c) Lewis' mother.
(d) God.

9. For whom has the author had no difficulty praying?
(a) His children.
(b) Strangers.
(c) His wife.
(d) Those who have died other than his wife.

10. What does the author say happens when we experience any kind of pain?
(a) It pulls us toward it.
(b) We need to share it with others.
(c) We barely notice it.
(d) We run from it.

11. What metaphor does the author use to describe the strength of his belief of H.'s continuing existence?
(a) A rope.
(b) An automobile.
(c) A grave stone.
(d) A book.

12. What does Lewis think people who grieve should do?
(a) Remove themselves from society.
(b) Talk to their pastors.
(c) Talk freely about their pain.
(d) Grit their teeth and get on with life.

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

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

15. What is the only thing, according to the author, that tests the reality of a belief?
(a) Prayer.
(b) A real risk.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Love.