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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 did the Incarnation achieve, according to the author?
(a) It saved humanity.
(b) It ruined all previous ideas of the Messiah.
(c) It created a religion.
(d) It raised Lazarus from the dead.

2. What metaphor does the author use to describe grief in the beginning of the fourth chapter?
(a) A house of cards.
(b) A broken trolley.
(c) A long, winding valley.
(d) A hopeless child.

3. What does the author think is the worst thing he could wish for H.?
(a) For her to remain gone.
(b) For her to have lived longer.
(c) For her to be with God.
(d) For her to come back.

4. To what length would the author have gone if it could have cured H.'s cancer?
(a) Never seen her again.
(b) Turned his back on God.
(c) Become a priest.
(d) Died in her place.

5. What experience helps the author make a decision about God's nature?
(a) The author's suffering.
(b) H.'s suffering.
(c) When the author stops grieving.
(d) When God withholds His comfort.

Short Answer Questions

1. What important personal process does the author begin in the course of Chapter Three?

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

3. With what same quality does the author think his love for H. shared?

4. What purpose do images of H. serve for the author?

5. What is the author's idea about reunion with the dead?

Short Essay Questions

1. Toward what does Lewis turn when he becomes overwhelmed by feelings?

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

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

4. Why does Lewis think that H.'s physical anguish might not have ended when she died? What images does Lewis use when reflecting on what happens to H. after she died?

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

6. What are Lewis's reflections about images in the fourth chapter?

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

9. What does Lewis reflect can withstand suffering better, the body or the mind? Briefly explain.

10. How does Lewis admit that he goes about restoring his faith?

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