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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the main character in the book?
(a) H.
(b) God.
(c) The two sons.
(d) C. S. Lewis.

3. By the end of the second chapter, what does the author think about human contemplation of God?
(a) It is the highest human endeavor.
(b) If humans think hard enough, they can understand God.
(c) Human beings should not try to accurately describe God.
(d) God guides human thought along the right course.

4. In the first chapter, what does the author say is the most "disquieting symptom"?
(a) His ability to continue working.
(b) Wondering where God is.
(c) His deep depression.
(d) When he turns his back on his friends.

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

6. In the second chapter, what does the author reason God must do if He hurts people so in this life?
(a) That God does not really hurt people at all.
(b) That He releases people from all pain
(c) That God continues to hurt people after death.
(d) It is not an issue.

7. Who reacts in shame when the author talks about his wife?
(a) The author's colleagues.
(b) The author's minister.
(c) The author's brother.
(d) Their sons.

8. What does the author say combats the idea of God's mindless cruelty?
(a) Scripture.
(b) Christ.
(c) Memories of lost loved ones.
(d) The promise of heaven.

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

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

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

12. When the author rereads his reflections, how does he react?
(a) He wants to stop his reflections.
(b) He erases the reflections.
(c) He scolds himself.
(d) He asks a friend to edit the work.

13. How long were the author and H. married?
(a) Three years.
(b) Ten years.
(c) One year.
(d) Six months.

14. Whose suffering troubles the author the most?
(a) His children's.
(b) H.'s
(c) His parents'.
(d) His own.

15. Of what disease did H. die?
(a) Leukemia.
(b) Brain tumor.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Emphysema.

Short Answer Questions

1. What religious form would an introduction of a bad God take, according to the author?

2. What was the difference between the author's and H.'s sufferings?

3. What did H. say so often?

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

5. What kind of understanding did the author have of H.'s dying?

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