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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author finally decide about the reality of death?
(a) That is certainly exists.
(b) That it is a cheap trick.
(c) That it brings freedom from suffering.
(d) That it is an illusion.

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

3. At the very end of the second chapter, to what or whom does the author compare himself?
(a) Job.
(b) A ship missing an engine.
(c) The Prodigal Son.
(d) A missing link.

4. In the second chapter, what person does the author come to realize he had little confidence in?
(a) B. R.
(b) H.
(c) The author's brother.
(d) The author's children.

5. What is Lewis' state of mind?
(a) Bitterness.
(b) Agony.
(c) Denial.
(d) Acceptance.

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

7. Who quoted to the author, "Do not mourn like those that have no hope."?
(a) H.
(b) C.
(c) B. R.
(d) The author's brother.

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

9. What quality best characterizes the author's reflections?
(a) Fear.
(b) Irrationality.
(c) Logic.
(d) Anger.

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

11. 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 not recognize each other.
(c) They would still die alone.
(d) It would be as if they never died.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What feeling characterizes the second section?

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

3. In what discipline was the author educated?

4. To what ultimate fate does the author resign himself?

5. Who has just died?

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