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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In what way does the author crave to be touched by H.?
(a) Upon the plane of nature.
(b) In his dreams.
(c) On the astral plane.
(d) On the heavenly plane.

4. In the first chapter, who does the author say had died several years ago?
(a) The author's father.
(b) The author's friend.
(c) One of the author's sons.
(d) The author's brother.

5. What feeling characterizes the second section?
(a) Creativity.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Fear.
(d) Hopelessness.

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

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

8. What does the author think about a God who has created a world of so much beauty?
(a) Suffering is necessary to balance the beauty.
(b) Such a God could not give people senseless pain.
(c) Such a God can do anything He chooses.
(d) Such a God is not interested in human suffering.

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

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

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

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

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

14. In what discipline was the author educated?
(a) Theology.
(b) Physics.
(c) Medieval History.
(d) Architecture.

15. What does the author conclude it is foolish to expect from the dead?
(a) To have conversations with them.
(b) For them to report what Heaven is like.
(c) For them to wait for their loved ones.
(d) For them to come back to life.

Short Answer Questions

1. How will the author respond if talked to about the "truth of religion"?

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

3. At the very end of the second chapter, to what or whom does the author compare himself?

4. What aspect of an afterlife does the author say differs completely from this life?

5. In his grief, where did the author want to revisit?

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