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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter Three, why does the author conclude he wants H. back?
(a) To restore the author's past.
(b) Because the author is selfish.
(c) To prove that God is all-powerful.
(d) So the author's children will have their mother.

2. What benefit might the author enjoy by praising God?
(a) Enoying H.
(b) Closeness with his children.
(c) Peace of mind.
(d) Acceptance of H.'s passing.

3. What does the author say is the Lord's "grand enterprise"?
(a) To make death such a mystery.
(b) To make a spiritual animal.
(c) To give people the ability to question Him.
(d) To test human faith.

4. What motivated the author's attempt to hit back at God?
(a) Not understanding God's intention.
(b) Acceptance of H.'s death.
(c) Respect.
(d) Religious conversion.

5. What did the Incarnation achieve, according to the author?
(a) It saved humanity.
(b) It ruined all previous ideas of the Messiah.
(c) It created a religion.
(d) It raised Lazarus from the dead.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What does the author think might have influenced his faith in God?
(a) Love.
(b) Fear.
(c) Courage.
(d) Imagination.

14. How does the author say that people react to someone in a room with them?
(a) As if the person already is dead.
(b) To the truth of the person.
(c) As if the person is God.
(d) To an idea of the person.

15. What does the author prefer to the "feelings, feelings, feelings"?
(a) Work as a distraction.
(b) Rational thought.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What important personal process does the author begin in the course of Chapter Three?

2. In Chapter Three, to what does the author compare grief?

3. What does the author say cannot compare with physical pain?

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

5. Who had recorded some arithmetic in one of the books the author found?

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