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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 is the "state" of heaven, according to the author?
(a) Where one "puts away childish things."
(b) "Where the former things have passed away."
(c) Where the dead live in eternal bliss.
(d) Where God answers all questions.

2. What is A Grief Observed a series of?
(a) Essays.
(b) Short stories.
(c) Reflections.
(d) Research papers.

3. What ancient civilization thought that embalming the dead lessened death's effect?
(a) Roman civilization.
(b) Egyptian civilization.
(c) Celtic civilization.
(d) Grecian civilization.

4. Who is the main character in the book?
(a) God.
(b) C. S. Lewis.
(c) H.
(d) The two sons.

5. What kind of understanding did the author have of H.'s dying?
(a) An understanding of knowing death was approaching.
(b) An understanding of the physical pain.
(c) The same understanding that H. had.
(d) An intellectual understanding.

Short Answer Questions

1. How will the author respond to being told the consolations of religion?

2. How will the author respond if talked to about the "truth of religion"?

3. At the very end of the second chapter, to what or whom does the author compare himself?

4. What pseudonym did the author use?

5. In what sense does the author agree that H. is with God, as some friends say?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lewis think people react when they encounter 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. Describe some people whom Lewis thinks are having negative reactions to Lewis and his grief?

4. What does Lewis mean by the term "live" as it relates to H.'s memory?

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

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

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 experience when he finally goes to a place where he and H. had been happy?

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

10. 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.?

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