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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 devil.
(b) Tainted and depraved ideas.
(c) The way God tests people.
(d) Organized religion.

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

3. When the author rereads his reflections, how does he react?
(a) He asks a friend to edit the work.
(b) He wants to stop his reflections.
(c) He erases the reflections.
(d) He scolds himself.

4. What pseudonym did the author use?
(a) N. W. Clerk.
(b) C. S. Lewis.
(c) Joy Gresham.
(d) J. R. R. Tolkien.

5. To what does the author compare clinging to the memory of one who has died?
(a) Death itself.
(b) Cold grave stones.
(c) Hallucinations.
(d) Snow falling on objects, covering their identities.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the author determine holds no promise of a happy afterlife?

2. What is the only thing, according to the author, that tests the reality of a belief?

3. What pseudonym did the author use?

4. Where is Jesus's agony on the cross recorded?

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

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

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

4. What is one aspect of the supposed consolation that H. continues that troubles Lewis?

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

6. What does Lewis realize is the problem with deciding to think less about himself and more about H.?

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

8. What does Lewis describe as so tragic about H.'s "noble hunger"?

9. 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.?

10. Lewis is surprised about the way that grief intrudes upon his daily responsibilities. What are some symptoms Lewis experiences about the laziness of grief?

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