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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. Who has just died?
(a) The author's best friend.
(b) The author's wife.
(c) The author's neighbor.
(d) The author's mother.

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

3. In what sense does the author feel isolated from his wife?
(a) He cannot enter into her experience of dying.
(b) He thinks she will not miss him.
(c) He cannot express his fears to her.
(d) She cannot come home from the hospital.

4. What accounts for a mother's response to comforting words regarding a lost child?
(a) Mothering instinct.
(b) Detachment from death.
(c) Confidence in Scripture.
(d) Faith in God.

5. What is H.'s real name?
(a) Joy Gresham.
(b) Norma Lewis.
(c) Helen Lewis.
(d) Sylvia Plath.

Short Answer Questions

1. By the end of the second chapter, what does the author think about human contemplation of God?

2. Who quoted to the author, "Do not mourn like those that have no hope."?

3. What does the author think about a God who has created a world of so much beauty?

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

5. To what does the author compare falling in love with H.'s memory?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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