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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Jesus's agony on the cross recorded?
(a) The Bible.
(b) A Grief Observed.
(c) The Dead Sea Scrolls.
(d) One of the author's textbooks.

2. Who said, "Why have you forsaken me?"
(a) Jesus.
(b) H.
(c) A friend.
(d) The author.

3. Whose suffering troubles the author the most?
(a) H.'s
(b) His children's.
(c) His parents'.
(d) His own.

4. What was the difference between the author's and H.'s sufferings?
(a) The experiences changed all the time without warning.
(b) They were very different experiences.
(c) There was no difference.
(d) One of them did not suffer at all.

5. What does the author say is human history's cruel joke?
(a) That there is no after life.
(b) That there is no promise in Jesus's life and death.
(c) That God is hateful.
(d) That this life makes no sense.

6. How does God seem to respond to the author's agony?
(a) With silence.
(b) With a sense of nearness to Lewis.
(c) With a feeling that Lewis' wife continued to live.
(d) With the gift of comfort.

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

8. In Chapter Two, what does the author say is one more name for death?
(a) Time.
(b) Grief.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Religion.

9. How does the author picture the "eternal somethings" that he and H. would be after this life?
(a) Emptiness.
(b) Angels.
(c) Corpses.
(d) Spheres.

10. What religious form would an introduction of a bad God take, according to the author?
(a) An Eastern religious idea.
(b) A sort of extreme Calvinism.
(c) Distorted Anglican theology.
(d) A Roman Catholic idea.

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

12. According to the author, what never repeats itself?
(a) History.
(b) God.
(c) Nature.
(d) Friends.

13. What, if any, were H.'s last words?
(a) "I am at peace with God."
(b) She had no last words.
(c) "I don't want to die."
(d) "I don't want to leave you now."

14. In the early stage of the author's grief, what was one emotion he felt toward God?
(a) Bliss.
(b) Companionship.
(c) Acceptance.
(d) Anger.

15. According to the author, what would happen if two lovers died at the exact some moment?
(a) They would go to Heaven together.
(b) They would still die alone.
(c) It would be as if they never died.
(d) They would not recognize each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, what feeling does a dying person experience?

2. According to the author, if he searched the universe for H., what would happen?

3. Of what disease did H. die?

4. How do some of the author's friends try to console him?

5. What ancient civilization thought that embalming the dead lessened death's effect?

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