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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. What does the author state causes human beings to regard God falsely?
(a) The way God tests people.
(b) Organized religion.
(c) The devil.
(d) Tainted and depraved ideas.

2. Who tries to comfort Lewis with a biblical story about Jesus?
(a) A minister.
(b) Lewis' son.
(c) A friend.
(d) God.

3. What metaphor does the author use to describe the strength of his belief of H.'s continuing existence?
(a) An automobile.
(b) A rope.
(c) A grave stone.
(d) A book.

4. What, if any, were H.'s last words?
(a) "I don't want to die."
(b) She had no last words.
(c) "I am at peace with God."
(d) "I don't want to leave you now."

5. What physical condition does the author think his feelings resemble?
(a) A severe headache.
(b) An ulcer.
(c) A concussion.
(d) A broken heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is H.?

2. How does Lewis begin his reflections?

3. What does the author say is human history's cruel joke?

4. To what ultimate fate does the author resign himself?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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. H.'s absence is most evident to Lewis in his body. How does Lewis experience his own body in his grief?

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

5. How does Lewis think people react when they encounter him?

6. What impresses Lewis about his realization of the man he had not seen for 10 years and Lewis's actual memories of the man?

7. 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?

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

10. 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?

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