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

2. What does the author say is one of the miracles of love?
(a) The power of forgiveness.
(b) The gift of healing.
(c) The power to see through enchantments.
(d) The ability to explain.

3. What can the author's grief and memories never achieve?
(a) Easing or aggravating H.'s past anguish.
(b) Bringing H. back.
(c) Restoring the author's faith in God.
(d) Giving the author comfort.

4. How must God be approached?
(a) As One who shares in human suffering.
(b) As the goal.
(c) As the means.
(d) As the road.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author think might have influenced his faith in God?

2. What does the author ask if he is doing with his fallen house of cards?

3. In Chapter Four, what does the author suddenly feel walking through nature?

4. What does the author conclude in Chapter Three was the purpose of his earlier rage against God?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

7. In addition to a sword, what other metaphor does Lewis use to describe H. to establish a balanced view?

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

9. At the beginning of Chapter Three, when does Lewis acknowledge that he does not think about H.? What is life like when Lewis is not thinking about H.?

10. 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?

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