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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of "no answer" does the author get from God by the fourth chapter?
(a) Absolutely no response.
(b) A silent gaze.
(c) A complete answer.
(d) A locked door.

2. Who had recorded some arithmetic in one of the books the author found?
(a) C. S.
(b) J.
(c) H.
(d) R.

3. What does the author decide in Chapter Three is more important that being treated gently by God?
(a) To understand that suffering leads to growth.
(b) There is nothing more important than being treated gently by God.
(c) To surrender to death.
(d) To rage against God's will.

4. What can the author's grief and memories never achieve?
(a) Restoring the author's faith in God.
(b) Bringing H. back.
(c) Giving the author comfort.
(d) Easing or aggravating H.'s past anguish.

5. Thinking so much about his grief causes the author to doubt what?
(a) His faith in God.
(b) His memories of H.
(c) His sanity.
(d) His love for H.

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

7. What words of comfort take on new meaning for the author in the fourth chapter?
(a) "Why have you forsaken me?"
(b) "Her suffering is ended."
(c) "She is in God's hands."
(d) "She is in Heaven now."

8. For the author, what element does praise always contain?
(a) Humility.
(b) Joy.
(c) Awe.
(d) Gratitude.

9. What does the author think is the worst thing he could wish for H.?
(a) For her to have lived longer.
(b) For her to be with God.
(c) For her to remain gone.
(d) For her to come back.

10. In Chapter Three, what is the author finally able to do?
(a) Remember H. without forcing it.
(b) Talk to his children about H.
(c) Tidy up his house.
(d) Tend to his affairs.

11. What metaphor does the author use to describe grief in the beginning of the fourth chapter?
(a) A long, winding valley.
(b) A hopeless child.
(c) A house of cards.
(d) A broken trolley.

12. What does the author say is one of the miracles of love?
(a) The ability to explain.
(b) The gift of healing.
(c) The power to see through enchantments.
(d) The power of forgiveness.

13. In Chapter Four, what does the author suddenly feel walking through nature?
(a) Surrender to fate.
(b) Deep loss.
(c) Faith in God.
(d) Invitation to pre-H. happiness.

14. What action does the author say is useless if God hurts to heal?
(a) Committing suicide.
(b) Begging God for tenderness.
(c) Thinking one can reverse any pain.
(d) Trying to heal oneself.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About what is the author's remaining problem in Chapter Four?

2. What did the Incarnation achieve, according to the author?

3. What does the author suspect is the real answer to reality?

4. What does the author think might have influenced his faith in God?

5. What experience helps the author make a decision about God's nature?

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