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

2. How will the author respond to being told the consolations of religion?
(a) He will be consoled.
(b) He will be persuaded.
(c) He will assume the speaker does not understand.
(d) He will argue from Scripture.

3. Rather than relying upon his memory of his wife, what does the author want?
(a) For God to return her.
(b) To replace her with a new partner.
(c) To dwell on her sweetness.
(d) To forget she ever lived.

4. What did the author's friends call him?
(a) Clive Staples.
(b) Jack.
(c) C. S.
(d) Clive.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author say a mother who has lost a child responds to words of comfort about where the child is?

2. Where does the author feel his loss the most?

3. What pseudonym did the author use?

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

5. What accounts for a mother's response to comforting words regarding a lost child?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Before H. died, In what ways is Lewis aware of the distinction between himself and H.?

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

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

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

6. How does Lewis try to convince himself that he does not mind H.'s death? Provide examples of the things that Lewis tells himself.

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

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

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

10. 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?

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