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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the author say cannot compare with physical pain?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Death.
(c) Grief.
(d) Fear.

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

4. What purpose do images of H. serve for the author?
(a) They are links.
(b) They remind the author of H.'s exact presence.
(c) They remind the author of God.
(d) They bring Christ to mind.

5. What is all reality, according to the author?
(a) Illusion.
(b) Truth.
(c) A gift.
(d) Iconoclastic.

6. According to the author, what kind of faith cannot survive a serious challenge such as death?
(a) The only kind of faith that is possible.
(b) An impossible faith.
(c) A house of cards.
(d) The faith of the saints.

7. In Chapter Three, to what does the author compare grief?
(a) A bomber circling round and round.
(b) A lost friendship.
(c) A veterinarian.
(d) A game of Bridge.

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

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

10. What does the author say can shatter the author's idea of God?
(a) Religious reflections.
(b) If the author changes his idea.
(c) God Himself.
(d) Scripture.

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

12. To what does the author compare physical pain?
(a) A steady barrage in a wartime trench.
(b) A broken relationship.
(c) A concentration camp.
(d) A life without God.

13. About what/whom have the author's notes been throughout the book?
(a) Only about the author.
(b) The author's children and God.
(c) God, the author, and H.
(d) Only about H.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author suspect is the real answer to reality?

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

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

4. What does the author prefer to the "feelings, feelings, feelings"?

5. In Chapter Three, what is the author finally able to do?

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