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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the author think about people who are not offended by iconoclasm?
(a) Bless them.
(b) Curse them.
(c) They are fools.
(d) They are God's chosen people.

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

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

6. What practical problem did H.'s death solve?
(a) The author learned how to cope with grief.
(b) The author learned how to confront his own mortality.
(c) It bridged the author's distance from God.
(d) The author cannot put her ahead of God.

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

8. What is the author's idea about reunion with the dead?
(a) A source of frustration.
(b) A waste of time.
(c) An extrapolation.
(d) A verifiable reality.

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

10. What does the author ask if he is doing with his fallen house of cards?
(a) Seeking counseling to accept it.
(b) Leaving the devastation as it is.
(c) Rebuilding it.
(d) Burning the ruins.

11. By Chapter Four, how many gains does the author claim to have made?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 0.
(d) 2.

12. What does the author conclude in Chapter Three was the purpose of his earlier rage against God?
(a) To manipulate God.
(b) To help the author redefine his idea of God.
(c) To strike back at God.
(d) To know the unknowable.

13. When does the author claim he is at his worst?
(a) When he can think about nothing but H.
(b) When he's not thinking about H.
(c) When he goes to bed.
(d) When he is lazy.

14. Why does the author ask God to treat H. tenderly?
(a) Because the author can no longer help her.
(b) Because of her terrible suffering in life.
(c) Because only God can make H. happy.
(d) Because everyone should be treated tenderly by God.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When will the author know if his restored faith is solid?

2. At the beginning of the third chapter, what does the author say is the reason he does not think about H. all the time?

3. For whose sake was the author's plea, "Come back"?

4. What purpose do images of H. serve for the author?

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

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