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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By the end of the second chapter, what does the author think about human contemplation of God?
(a) It is the highest human endeavor.
(b) Human beings should not try to accurately describe God.
(c) God guides human thought along the right course.
(d) If humans think hard enough, they can understand God.

2. According to the author, what would happen if two lovers died at the exact some moment?
(a) It would be as if they never died.
(b) They would go to Heaven together.
(c) They would not recognize each other.
(d) They would still die alone.

3. What does the author conclude about the way that lovers feel about the other one's death?
(a) The feelings are complementary.
(b) The feelings are exactly the same.
(c) The feelings are overpowering.
(d) The feelings are in opposition.

4. What disease took both of the author's parents?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) Old age.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Heart disease.

5. How does the author decide he must consider death?
(a) As God's punishment.
(b) As an illusion.
(c) As a brief parting.
(d) As a permanent separation.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way does the author crave to be touched by H.?

2. What pseudonym did the author use?

3. According to the author, if he searched the universe for H., what would happen?

4. How does God seem to respond to the author's agony?

5. Where does the author feel his loss the most?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter One, Lewis reflects upon marriage, religion and God. What is one thing that Lewis admits that marriage has done for him?

2. What does Lewis think that he can say about H.'s continuing? Why is it important for Lewis to work out the issue of where H. is?

3. How did Lewis feel years ago about a friend's life after death? Contrast that experience with the way that Lewis experiences H. after her death?

4. Does Lewis have trouble believing that God exists? Explain.

5. In Chapter Two, how does Lewis introduce the idea of faith? When does Lewis determine that one's beliefs are ultimately tested?

6. Why can Lewis not talk to his children about their mother?

7. Lewis begins to ask a question that becomes central to his reflections. What "disquieting symptom" introduces itself to Lewis in Chapter One?

8. What was so striking and disturbing about Lewis's encounter with the man he had not seen for 10 years? What image comes to Lewis's mind about memories of H.?

9. What was the most precious gift that marriage to H. had given Lewis? What is Lewis afraid will happen to that gift?

10. What do consoling people tell Lewis about where H. is after her death? How does Lewis interpret these attempts to console him?

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