View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following names is the name of one of Nicholas' children?
(a) David.
(b) Jonathan.
(c) Amy.
(d) Katherine.

2. What does Nicholas say are the worst days now that Eric is gone?
(a) Holidays.
(b) Eric's birthday.
(c) Nicholas's birthday.
(d) The birthday of his other children.

3. On page 72, what type of a mother does Nicholas describe and say that he cannot identify with her pain?
(a) An impoverished mother whose child is starving.
(b) A mother who has lost a child in childbirth.
(c) A mother who hurts her children.
(d) A mother who has no living children.

4. On Page 80, what does it say that God has allowed to flow?
(a) Rivers of blood.
(b) Rivers of death.
(c) Rivers of grief.
(d) Rivers of pain.

5. What author, in writing about the death of his wife was plainly angry with God?
(a) Oswald Sanders.
(b) John Piper.
(c) Watchman Nee.
(d) C. S. Lewis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a voice say when Nicholas becomes fearful in the dream he mentions on page 50?

2. Where in the Bible is the quote, "Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy."

3. Who wrote, "we have to wait for the third day"?

4. In the book that angered Nicholas, what passage of the Bible does the author mention was read in church the Sunday before the death of a man's son?

5. What is the name of the work where this phrase appears, "there must be something more than death..., there must be a promise that is not fulfilled in our short existence in this world."

Short Essay Questions

1. In what respects does man mirror God?

2. What will Nicholas do rather than turn away from death?

3. Is there a firm answer to why humans suffer?

4. Why does Nicholas think the death of a child is so painful?

5. Why did the ordinariness bother Nicholas when he walked into a store?

6. Why didn't Nicholas plunge back into his work?

7. What are the worst days for Nicholas now that Eric is gone?

8. How is what the Stoics said different from what Jesus said about mourning?

9. Why does Nicholas say that his loss is Eric's as well?

10. What metaphor does Nicholas use to explain faith?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 918 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample