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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the second chapter, what does the author reason God must do if He hurts people so in this life?
(a) That He releases people from all pain
(b) That God continues to hurt people after death.
(c) That God does not really hurt people at all.
(d) It is not an issue.

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

3. What is the "state" of heaven, according to the author?
(a) Where God answers all questions.
(b) Where the dead live in eternal bliss.
(c) "Where the former things have passed away."
(d) Where one "puts away childish things."

4. Who is the main character in the book?
(a) H.
(b) The two sons.
(c) God.
(d) C. S. Lewis.

5. To what ultimate fate does the author resign himself?
(a) Life with God.
(b) Understanding the meaning of life and death.
(c) Death.
(d) Reunion with H.

6. Of what disease did H. die?
(a) Leukemia.
(b) Brain tumor.
(c) Emphysema.
(d) Cancer.

7. At the very end of the second chapter, to what or whom does the author compare himself?
(a) The Prodigal Son.
(b) A ship missing an engine.
(c) A missing link.
(d) Job.

8. What disease took both of the author's parents?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Old age.
(d) Heart disease.

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

10. Who tries to comfort Lewis with a biblical story about Jesus?
(a) God.
(b) A friend.
(c) A minister.
(d) Lewis' son.

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

12. Where does the author feel his loss the most?
(a) At work.
(b) In his body.
(c) At the park.
(d) In his home.

13. What ancient civilization thought that embalming the dead lessened death's effect?
(a) Grecian civilization.
(b) Roman civilization.
(c) Egyptian civilization.
(d) Celtic civilization.

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

15. What does the author conclude about the way that lovers feel about the other one's death?
(a) The feelings are complementary.
(b) The feelings are exactly the same.
(c) The feelings are overpowering.
(d) The feelings are in opposition.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the author compare clinging to the memory of one who has died?

2. Who quoted to the author, "Do not mourn like those that have no hope."?

3. What kind of character did the author's wife have?

4. When the author rereads his reflections, how does he react?

5. Who said, "Why have you forsaken me?"

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