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

2. What does the author conclude it is foolish to expect from the dead?
(a) For them to come back to life.
(b) To have conversations with them.
(c) For them to report what Heaven is like.
(d) For them to wait for their loved ones.

3. How long were the author and H. married?
(a) One year.
(b) Ten years.
(c) Six months.
(d) Three years.

4. What does the author say is human history's cruel joke?
(a) That there is no after life.
(b) That this life makes no sense.
(c) That God is hateful.
(d) That there is no promise in Jesus's life and death.

5. What does the author say happens when we experience any kind of pain?
(a) It pulls us toward it.
(b) We barely notice it.
(c) We run from it.
(d) We need to share it with others.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Lewis' sons remind him of?

2. What disease took both of the author's parents?

3. What does the author conclude about the way that lovers feel about the other one's death?

4. Who reacts in shame when the author talks about his wife?

5. What kind of character did the author's wife have?

Short Essay Questions

1. Lewis decided to record his reflections to get all his feelings and thoughts out. What does Lewis reflect might be a downside to his journal?

2. What does Lewis find so horrifying about the man he encountered who was tending to his mother's grave? What does Lewis's reaction to the man mean for Lewis's feelings about H.?

3. What aspects of religion is Lewis glad to discuss? What aspect of religion is Lewis not willing to accept?

4. Why is Lewis "appalled" when he read what he has written in the first chapter?

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

6. What is it about cancer that prompts some of Lewis' reflections?

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

8. Does Lewis believe in the idea of families reuniting on the other side? Upon what does Lewis base his conclusion?

9. In what ways does Lewis reflect a mother who has lost her child can and cannot find comfort? For what does a mother mourn in that situation?

10. Lewis turns to C. with questions about God. How does C. respond to Lewis's thoughts?

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