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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 motivated the author's attempt to hit back at God?
(a) Respect.
(b) Religious conversion.
(c) Acceptance of H.'s death.
(d) Not understanding God's intention.

2. Why does the author ask God to treat H. tenderly?
(a) Because only God can make H. happy.
(b) Because the author can no longer help her.
(c) Because everyone should be treated tenderly by God.
(d) Because of her terrible suffering in life.

3. About what/whom have the author's notes been throughout the book?
(a) Only about the author.
(b) Only about H.
(c) God, the author, and H.
(d) The author's children and God.

4. In Chapter Four, what does the author decide loving H. is like?
(a) Loving a memory.
(b) Loving a lie.
(c) Loving God.
(d) Loving the author's self.

5. In Chapter Four, what does the author suddenly feel walking through nature?
(a) Invitation to pre-H. happiness.
(b) Faith in God.
(c) Deep loss.
(d) Surrender to fate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What words of comfort take on new meaning for the author in the fourth chapter?

2. What does the author think might have influenced his love for H.?

3. For the author, what element does praise always contain?

4. When will the author know if his restored faith is solid?

5. What does the author suspect is the real answer to reality?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the consolation that previously so wearied Lewis, "She is in God's hands", strike Lewis by the last chapter?

2. What does Lewis write that his notes ultimately have been about?

3. What does Lewis mean when he writes that he can believe that God is a vet? Conversely, how is it difficult for Lewis to think of God as a vet?

4. What does Lewis mean when he writes about a house of cards?

5. In what way does Lewis's previous acceptance of death and mourning alter with H.'s death?

6. What feelings follow from Lewis's experiences when he is not thinking about H.? How is his feeling related to his grief?

7. What human conditions does Lewis admit that he can never fully examine?

8. What is the difference between how Lewis earlier understood biblical consolations and how he came to understand them?

9. What question does Lewis ask to begin to reason his way through his pain? How does this question lead Lewis onto new ground?

10. What does Lewis want when it comes to reality vs. ideas about reality?

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