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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the author know that the end of this life is all about heavenly reunions?
(a) Reality never repeats.
(b) It says so in the Bible.
(c) He and H. discussed it.
(d) He had a vision.

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

3. What does the author think happens to our memories of people?
(a) The memories become more clear.
(b) The memories act as substitutes for the people.
(c) We completely forget people.
(d) The memories change over time.

4. What kind of character did the author's wife have?
(a) Depressive.
(b) No-nonsense.
(c) Sullen.
(d) Irresponsible.

5. Of what emotion does grief remind the author?
(a) Acceptance.
(b) Fear.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Gratitude.

6. How does the author view the world that H. left behind?
(a) Welcoming.
(b) Hostile.
(c) Engaging.
(d) Uninteresting and trivial.

7. The day after the author's rant in Chapter Two, what does he ask himself about God?
(a) If God can return H. to life.
(b) Whether or not God exists.
(c) If he has found acceptance that H. is gone.
(d) If it's rational to believe in a bad God.

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

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

10. In his grief, where did the author want to revisit?
(a) Confession.
(b) France.
(c) The places he and H. had been happiest.
(d) The United States.

11. According to the author, what feeling does a dying person experience?
(a) Sorrow to leave one's partner.
(b) Joy to be going to Heaven.
(c) Fear of destruction.
(d) Relief that pain will end.

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

13. What did H. say so often?
(a) "C'est la vie."
(b) "Alone into the alone."
(c) 'Don't let me die."
(d) "I will always love you."

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 grateful.
(c) She is relieved.
(d) She is not comforted.

15. How does Lewis begin his reflections?
(a) By describing his physical and mental state.
(b) By weeping.
(c) By shouting at God.
(d) By describing his friends' reactions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What quality did the author admire so much about H.?

2. What does the author think lessens the horror of a terminal illness?

3. In the early stage of the author's grief, what was one emotion he felt toward God?

4. What physical condition does the author think his feelings resemble?

5. How does the author picture the "eternal somethings" that he and H. would be after this life?

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