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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 think that H. would have thought must happen to weak faith?
(a) That such faith must be held closely.
(b) Religion must build up such faith.
(c) That weak faith has to grow stronger.
(d) That such faith must be knocked down.

2. To what length would the author have gone if it could have cured H.'s cancer?
(a) Never seen her again.
(b) Become a priest.
(c) Died in her place.
(d) Turned his back on God.

3. What is the only thing the author thinks matters about his anger toward God?
(a) That the author release his anger.
(b) That the author's anger is justified.
(c) That his anger could bring H. back.
(d) That God is a healer or a sadist.

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

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

6. In Chapter Four, what did the author say he finally experienced about H.?
(a) A reunion of lovers.
(b) Her soul.
(c) Her mind.
(d) A sense of joy.

7. Why could the author's records not achieve his intended purpose?
(a) Because sorrow is a process, not a state.
(b) Because the author cannot understand his own thoughts.
(c) Because the author stopped recording his thoughts.
(d) Because sorrow never ends.

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

9. What experience helps the author make a decision about God's nature?
(a) When the author stops grieving.
(b) When God withholds His comfort.
(c) The author's suffering.
(d) H.'s suffering.

10. How many books does the author use to record his reflections?
(a) 7.
(b) 2.
(c) 10.
(d) 4.

11. At the beginning of the third chapter, what does the author say is the reason he does not think about H. all the time?
(a) Work and conversation get in the way.
(b) He is writing a book.
(c) His children take up his time.
(d) He tries to distract himself.

12. What does the author say is the obvious danger of images?
(a) They are not the real thing.
(b) They make people crazy.
(c) They fade.
(d) They do not look like their subjects.

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

14. What metaphor does the author use with which to compare with a God who hurts to heal?
(a) A trickster.
(b) A cosmic sadist.
(c) A frustrated parent.
(d) A surgeon with wholly good intentions.

15. Against what were the author's records written?
(a) Loss of the author's career.
(b) Total collapse.
(c) Insanity.
(d) Losing memory of H.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author consider might be "only one more house of cards"?

2. Who is the source of the author's problem?

3. What benefit might the author enjoy by praising God?

4. To what does the author compare physical pain?

5. About what/whom have the author's notes been throughout the book?

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