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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the author conclude is God's nature?
(a) That God is unreliable.
(b) That He is a sadist.
(c) That God does not exist.
(d) That He is a vet.

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

4. At the beginning of Chapter Four, what impossible result does the author admit he thought his records could achieve?
(a) Bring happiness to his children.
(b) Bring H. back.
(c) Make a map of sorrow.
(d) End the author's grief.

5. What do Bridge-players tell the author makes the game serious?
(a) Nothing makes Bridge serious.
(b) Concentration.
(c) Money.
(d) Friends gathering.

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

7. What does the author finally decide in Chapter Four he must get on with accomplishing?
(a) Finishing his book.
(b) Following the two great commandments.
(c) Rediscovering happiness.
(d) Continuing his career.

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

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

10. What does the author consider might be "only one more house of cards"?
(a) Finding comfort in friendship.
(b) Restoration of his faith.
(c) Using his work to ease his grief.
(d) Marrying again.

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

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the author ask God to treat H. tenderly?

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. Why does the author think that grief feels like suspense?

4. With what same quality does the author think his love for H. shared?

5. In Chapter Three, why does the author conclude he wants H. back?

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