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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue: The Second Death.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "second death" mean?
(a) A life spent never forgetting death.
(b) Remembering the loss of a loved one.
(c) The death of two loved ones in the same year.
(d) A chance for the dead to mourn.

2. What formed the X-shaped shadow Van looks at in "The Shadow of a Tree?"
(a) His body.
(b) A ship's mast.
(c) A building.
(d) A tree.

3. What upset Van about his letters to Davy in "Epilogue: The Second Death?"
(a) He lost them.
(b) They were selfish.
(c) He no longer wrote "you."
(d) She did not want them.

4. Why did Van write letters to Davy after her death?
(a) He hoped she could read them.
(b) He thought it was closure.
(c) He wanted to make them into a book.
(d) He did not want her to feel left out.

5. What did Van see when he looked at his boyhood house for the first time since leaving it?
(a) It was smaller than he remembered.
(b) He saw it filled with the people he knows.
(c) He saw that it was falling apart.
(d) He saw it filled with strangers.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Van and C.S. Lewis say the dead will depart in "Epilogue: The Second Death?"

2. What did Davy and Van decide to establish a code for before marriage?

3. What did Davy's friends give her after she returned home in "The Deathly Snows?"

4. What does Lewis say is most important about eternity in "The Severe Mercy?"

5. What did Van say when Davy asked him not to follow her in death?

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