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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 does the author decide in Chapter Three is more important that being treated gently by God?
(a) To rage against God's will.
(b) To surrender to death.
(c) To understand that suffering leads to growth.
(d) There is nothing more important than being treated gently by God.

2. How many books does the author use to record his reflections?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 7.
(d) 10.

3. What does the author think might be true about his unconscious?
(a) That it is less primitive than his consciousness.
(b) That only God understands it.
(c) That it is more primitive than the author's consciousness.
(d) That it is an unfathomable mystery.

4. What does the author consider might be "only one more house of cards"?
(a) Finding comfort in friendship.
(b) Restoration of his faith.
(c) Using his work to ease his grief.
(d) Marrying again.

5. What does the author suspect is the real answer to reality?
(a) Some shattering simplicity.
(b) There are no real answers.
(c) Reality is a curse.
(d) This life is Heaven.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the author think that Lazarus got a "raw deal"?

2. What does the author finally decide in Chapter Four he must get on with accomplishing?

3. In Chapter Three, what is the author finally able to do?

4. What motivated the author's attempt to hit back at God?

5. In Chapter Four, what does the author decide loving H. is like?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Lewis mean when he writes that all reality is iconoclastic? How does this statement relate to Lewis's thoughts about his love for H.?

6. At the beginning of Chapter Four, why does Lewis decide that he will not fill more than four journals?

7. 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?

8. What is the difference between how Lewis felt at the beginning of the book and how he feels at the end of his reflections?

9. What choices does Lewis think that people have when it comes to their ideas about God?

10. What signs are there that Lewis is beginning to come out of his depression?

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