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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is all reality, according to the author?
(a) Truth.
(b) A gift.
(c) Illusion.
(d) Iconoclastic.
2. How must God be approached?
(a) As the means.
(b) As the goal.
(c) As One who shares in human suffering.
(d) As the road.
3. At the beginning of Chapter Four, what impossible result does the author admit he thought his records could achieve?
(a) Bring H. back.
(b) Bring happiness to his children.
(c) End the author's grief.
(d) Make a map of sorrow.
4. Why does the author think that Lazarus got a "raw deal"?
(a) Lazarus was a martyr.
(b) Lazarus was still ill when he came back to life.
(c) Lazarus had to die twice.
(d) Lazarus did not want to rise from the dead.
5. Why can the body suffer so much more than the mind, according to the author?
(a) The mind never suffers.
(b) Because God made it that way.
(c) The body is stronger than the mind.
(d) The mind is capable of evasion.
6. What does the author conclude in Chapter Three was the purpose of his earlier rage against God?
(a) To help the author redefine his idea of God.
(b) To know the unknowable.
(c) To manipulate God.
(d) To strike back at God.
7. What metaphor does the author use with which to compare with a God who hurts to heal?
(a) A frustrated parent.
(b) A surgeon with wholly good intentions.
(c) A trickster.
(d) A cosmic sadist.
8. What did the Incarnation achieve, according to the author?
(a) It raised Lazarus from the dead.
(b) It created a religion.
(c) It ruined all previous ideas of the Messiah.
(d) It saved humanity.
9. What does the author think might be true about his unconscious?
(a) That only God understands it.
(b) That it is more primitive than the author's consciousness.
(c) That it is less primitive than his consciousness.
(d) That it is an unfathomable mystery.
10. Why does the author ask God to treat H. tenderly?
(a) Because of her terrible suffering in life.
(b) Because the author can no longer help her.
(c) Because everyone should be treated tenderly by God.
(d) Because only God can make H. happy.
11. What does the author say can shatter the author's idea of God?
(a) If the author changes his idea.
(b) God Himself.
(c) Religious reflections.
(d) Scripture.
12. What experience helps the author make a decision about God's nature?
(a) When the author stops grieving.
(b) The author's suffering.
(c) When God withholds His comfort.
(d) H.'s suffering.
13. What important personal process does the author begin in the course of Chapter Three?
(a) Writing another book.
(b) Rebuiilding his faith.
(c) Leaving his career.
(d) Moving to a new home.
14. What do Bridge-players tell the author makes the game serious?
(a) Money.
(b) Concentration.
(c) Nothing makes Bridge serious.
(d) Friends gathering.
15. What is the only thing the author thinks matters about his anger toward God?
(a) That the author's anger is justified.
(b) That his anger could bring H. back.
(c) That the author release his anger.
(d) That God is a healer or a sadist.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many books does the author use to record his reflections?
2. What does the author consider might be "only one more house of cards"?
3. When will the author know if his restored faith is solid?
4. When does the author claim he is at his worst?
5. What one thing has sufficient force to rattle one's faith, according to the author in Chapter Three?
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