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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 9: p. 92-103.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Nicholas say that people need to go to comfort him?
(a) Visit him at home.
(b) Come to the cemetery.
(c) Spend time with him and his family.
(d) Come close.

2. What was Nicholas watching when the thought overwhelmed him that he did not understand suffering?
(a) A father carrying his dead son.
(b) The flicker of red-gold morning light on wind-blown waves.
(c) A mother weeping in a cemetery.
(d) The flicker of orange-pink evening light on almost still water.

3. What poet wrote about "inscape"?
(a) G. K. Chesterton.
(b) Gerard Manley Hopkins.
(c) Robert Browning.
(d) Matthew Arnold.

4. What part of God is never seen?
(a) His heart.
(b) His back.
(c) His hands.
(d) His face.

5. What type of books were on a table in Eric's apartment?
(a) Bibles and devotionals.
(b) Books on pottery.
(c) Art and mountaineering books.
(d) Architectural books.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were Nicholas and Eric when Eric wondered how he could know there is a God?

2. Who said, "We must be still and still moving into another intensity"?

3. Now that Eric is gone, what does Nicholas say there is in the world now, on page 33?

4. What histories are written about the odyssey of humanity on earth?

5. Who does Nicholas say is the man of sorrows?

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