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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter Three, to what does the author compare faith?
(a) A dream state.
(b) A game of chess.
(c) A game of bridge.
(d) A mysterious friendship.

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

3. Why does the author think that grief feels like suspense?
(a) One does not know why grief is so painful.
(b) One never knows when grief will end.
(c) One experiences frustrating habitual impulses.
(d) One does not know what grief really means.

4. What does the author suspect is the real answer to reality?
(a) This life is Heaven.
(b) Some shattering simplicity.
(c) There are no real answers.
(d) Reality is a curse.

5. In Chapter Four, what does the author decide loving H. is like?
(a) Loving a lie.
(b) Loving the author's self.
(c) Loving God.
(d) Loving a memory.

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

7. What does the author think it means if human suffering is unnecessary?
(a) That Satan causes suffering.
(b) Either there is no God or He is bad.
(c) That humans bring on their own suffering.
(d) That human suffering is an illusion.

8. About what is the author's remaining problem in Chapter Four?
(a) About what God should do.
(b) About feelings and motives.
(c) About what the author can do.
(d) About how to live.

9. Who does the author think might have a special ability for the miracle of love?
(a) The woman.
(b) One's minister.
(c) One's children.
(d) The man.

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

11. 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.

12. 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) He tries to distract himself.
(d) His children take up his time.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Against what were the author's records written?

2. When was another time when the author enjoyed rambling walks?

3. What characterizes any changes that the author has experienced?

4. As Chapter Three begins, what does the author record that he is afraid his grief will turn into?

5. In the third chapter, what does the author decide is happening to his wife in the next life?

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