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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Chapter Three begins, what does the author record that he is afraid his grief will turn into?
(a) Unending sorrow.
(b) Distorted memories of H.
(c) Dead flatness.
(d) Rage.

2. What effect did the author's experience of H. have on him?
(a) It restored his faith in God.
(b) It left him wanting H. even more.
(c) It was like a spring cleaning of the mind.
(d) It assured him that she continued.

3. What does the author think might be true about his unconscious?
(a) That it is an unfathomable mystery.
(b) That it is more primitive than the author's consciousness.
(c) That only God understands it.
(d) That it is less primitive than his consciousness.

4. What does the author think might have influenced his love for H.?
(a) Reflection of the author's love of God.
(b) A desire to have children.
(c) Egoism.
(d) Loneliness.

5. Why can the body suffer so much more than the mind, according to the author?
(a) The body is stronger than the mind.
(b) The mind never suffers.
(c) Because God made it that way.
(d) The mind is capable of evasion.

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

7. 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 come back.
(d) For her to remain gone.

8. What characterizes any changes that the author has experienced?
(a) They are unobservable.
(b) He is not aware of them.
(c) They are frightening.
(d) They are sudden.

9. What one thing has sufficient force to rattle one's faith, according to the author in Chapter Three?
(a) One's own illness.
(b) Explosive anger.
(c) Losing faith in God.
(d) Suffering.

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

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

12. In the third chapter, what does the author decide is happening to his wife in the next life?
(a) She has become an angel.
(b) God continues to "temper her."
(c) She is perfected in God's eyes.
(d) Absolutely nothing.

13. How long did "low-hung grey skies" hang over the author?
(a) 10 days.
(b) A month.
(c) A week.
(d) A year.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author decide in Chapter Three is more important that being treated gently by God?

2. What does the author say is the Lord's "grand enterprise"?

3. For the author, what element does praise always contain?

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

5. If sorrow does not require a map, what does it require?

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