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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rather than relying upon his memory of his wife, what does the author want?
(a) To forget she ever lived.
(b) To dwell on her sweetness.
(c) For God to return her.
(d) To replace her with a new partner.

2. What sense does the first chapter end with?
(a) Futility.
(b) Resolution.
(c) Uncertainty.
(d) Satisfaction.

3. What accounts for a mother's response to comforting words regarding a lost child?
(a) Faith in God.
(b) Confidence in Scripture.
(c) Mothering instinct.
(d) Detachment from death.

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

5. In Chapter Two, of whom does the author decide he needs to think more?
(a) Himself.
(b) God.
(c) His children.
(d) H.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. To what does the author compare falling in love with H.'s memory?
(a) Insanity.
(b) The next best thing to having H. with him.
(c) Incest.
(d) Adultery.

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

15. What pseudonym did the author use?
(a) J. R. R. Tolkien.
(b) Joy Gresham.
(c) C. S. Lewis.
(d) N. W. Clerk.

Short Answer Questions

1. If death is real, what does the author conclude about it?

2. How does the author know that the end of this life is all about heavenly reunions?

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

4. In what sense does the author agree that H. is with God, as some friends say?

5. According to the author, what never repeats itself?

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