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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. In Chapter Three, to what does the author compare faith?
(a) A game of chess.
(b) A game of bridge.
(c) A mysterious friendship.
(d) A dream state.

2. As Chapter Three begins, what does the author record that he is afraid his grief will turn into?
(a) Unending sorrow.
(b) Distorted memories of H.
(c) Rage.
(d) Dead flatness.

3. What will happen every time the author builds a new house of cards?
(a) God will knock it down.
(b) The author will continue what he is doing.
(c) The author will stop what he is doing.
(d) The author will grow closer to God.

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

5. What does the author conclude in Chapter Three was the purpose of his earlier rage against God?
(a) To help the author redefine his idea of God.
(b) To strike back at God.
(c) To know the unknowable.
(d) To manipulate God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of "no answer" does the author get from God by the fourth chapter?

2. Why does the author think that grief feels like suspense?

3. What did the Incarnation achieve, according to the author?

4. About how many human questions does the author estimate cannot be answered by God?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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