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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will happen every time the author builds a new house of cards?
(a) The author will stop what he is doing.
(b) The author will grow closer to God.
(c) The author will continue what he is doing.
(d) God will knock it down.

2. About how many human questions does the author estimate cannot be answered by God?
(a) None of them.
(b) About half.
(c) All of them.
(d) About 75%.

3. For whose sake was the author's plea, "Come back"?
(a) For his children's sake.
(b) For God's sake.
(c) The author's own sake.
(d) For H.'s sake.

4. What important personal process does the author begin in the course of Chapter Three?
(a) Leaving his career.
(b) Rebuiilding his faith.
(c) Writing another book.
(d) Moving to a new home.

5. When was another time when the author enjoyed rambling walks?
(a) When his children were younger.
(b) When he was a child.
(c) When he was a bachelor.
(d) After the author's parents died.

6. How must God be approached?
(a) As the means.
(b) As the road.
(c) As One who shares in human suffering.
(d) As the goal.

7. What do Bridge-players tell the author makes the game serious?
(a) Friends gathering.
(b) Money.
(c) Nothing makes Bridge serious.
(d) Concentration.

8. According to the author, what kind of faith cannot survive a serious challenge such as death?
(a) An impossible faith.
(b) The only kind of faith that is possible.
(c) A house of cards.
(d) The faith of the saints.

9. What does the author consider might be "only one more house of cards"?
(a) Restoration of his faith.
(b) Marrying again.
(c) Using his work to ease his grief.
(d) Finding comfort in friendship.

10. When will the author know if his restored faith is solid?
(a) When he returns to church.
(b) When he no longer misses H.
(c) When he prays daily.
(d) When the next tragic blow comes.

11. What is all reality, according to the author?
(a) Iconoclastic.
(b) Truth.
(c) Illusion.
(d) A gift.

12. How many hours of healthy sleep did the author finally get in Chapter Three?
(a) 24 hours.
(b) 8 hours.
(c) 10 hours.
(d) 12 hours.

13. What does it mean if there is a good God, according to the author?
(a) Human suffering is necessary.
(b) Human beings do not suffer.
(c) Human suffering is unnecessary.
(d) Suffering is a human invention.

14. Why does the author think that grief feels like suspense?
(a) One does not know why grief is so painful.
(b) One does not know what grief really means.
(c) One never knows when grief will end.
(d) One experiences frustrating habitual impulses.

15. What does the author think about people who are not offended by iconoclasm?
(a) Curse them.
(b) They are God's chosen people.
(c) They are fools.
(d) Bless them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What motivated the author's attempt to hit back at God?

2. What kinds of mortal questions does the author think that God cannot answer?

3. What characterizes any changes that the author has experienced?

4. With what same quality does the author think his love for H. shared?

5. What words of comfort take on new meaning for the author in the fourth chapter?

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