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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 purpose do images of H. serve for the author?
(a) They remind the author of H.'s exact presence.
(b) They are links.
(c) They remind the author of God.
(d) They bring Christ to mind.

2. What does the author think might have influenced his love for H.?
(a) Reflection of the author's love of God.
(b) Egoism.
(c) A desire to have children.
(d) Loneliness.

3. What kinds of mortal questions does the author think that God cannot answer?
(a) Nonsense questions.
(b) Questions about Christ.
(c) Questions about love.
(d) Questions about life and death.

4. Against what were the author's records written?
(a) Insanity.
(b) Total collapse.
(c) Loss of the author's career.
(d) Losing memory of H.

5. In the third chapter, what does the author decide is happening to his wife in the next life?
(a) Absolutely nothing.
(b) She is perfected in God's eyes.
(c) She has become an angel.
(d) God continues to "temper her."

Short Answer Questions

1. When was another time when the author enjoyed rambling walks?

2. What metaphor does the author use with which to compare with a God who hurts to heal?

3. At the beginning of the third chapter, what does the author say is the reason he does not think about H. all the time?

4. What benefit might the author enjoy by praising God?

5. How many books does the author use to record his reflections?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What enormous gain in his sense of God and of H. has Lewis made by the fourth chapter?

3. What is an imperfect religious image with which Lewis is familiar? What is Lewis's reflection on this image?

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

5. What hopeful similes does Lewis use to describe a moment he experiences one night?

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

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

8. For Lewis, why is a good God as formidable as God, the Cosmic Sadist? Describe the differences between the two ideas.

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

10. 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?

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