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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For the author, what are human characterizations of God?
(a) Grandiose characterizations.
(b) Accurate descriptions.
(c) Anthropomorphism.
(d) Delusions.

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

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

4. At the end of Chapter Two, what does the author think about his reflections?
(a) That he is growing closer to God.
(b) They are senseless.
(c) That the author is close to understanding why his wife died.
(d) That God will answer all of the author's questions.

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

6. Who causes the author the most confusion?
(a) His friends.
(b) His sons.
(c) Himself.
(d) God.

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

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

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

10. If death is real, what does the author conclude about it?
(a) That God does not care if people die.
(b) That the author has no reason to keep living.
(c) That it matters more than anything.
(d) That its existence is irrelevant.

11. How does the author decide he must consider death?
(a) As a brief parting.
(b) As a permanent separation.
(c) As God's punishment.
(d) As an illusion.

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

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

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

15. To what does the author compare clinging to the memory of one who has died?
(a) Snow falling on objects, covering their identities.
(b) Cold grave stones.
(c) Death itself.
(d) Hallucinations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What quality best characterizes the author's reflections?

2. What disease took both of the author's parents?

3. How does the author say a mother who has lost a child responds to words of comfort about where the child is?

4. Who is H.?

5. Of what emotion does grief remind the author?

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