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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 effect did the author's experience of H. have on him?
(a) It restored his faith in God.
(b) It assured him that she continued.
(c) It was like a spring cleaning of the mind.
(d) It left him wanting H. even more.

2. In Chapter Three, why does the author conclude he wants H. back?
(a) So the author's children will have their mother.
(b) To prove that God is all-powerful.
(c) To restore the author's past.
(d) Because the author is selfish.

3. What kind of "no answer" does the author get from God by the fourth chapter?
(a) A locked door.
(b) Absolutely no response.
(c) A silent gaze.
(d) A complete answer.

4. What is all reality, according to the author?
(a) A gift.
(b) Iconoclastic.
(c) Truth.
(d) Illusion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Bridge-players tell the author makes the game serious?

2. What metaphor does the author use to describe grief in the beginning of the fourth chapter?

3. According to the author, what kind of faith cannot survive a serious challenge such as death?

4. How many hours of healthy sleep did the author finally get in Chapter Three?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter Three, what does Lewis come to see about his love for H. and his faith in God?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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