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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author think about a God who has created a world of so much beauty?
(a) Such a God is not interested in human suffering.
(b) Such a God could not give people senseless pain.
(c) Suffering is necessary to balance the beauty.
(d) Such a God can do anything He chooses.

2. Who is H.?
(a) A faculty member.
(b) A friend from the author's past.
(c) The author's brother.
(d) The author's wife.

3. In what discipline was the author educated?
(a) Physics.
(b) Architecture.
(c) Theology.
(d) Medieval History.

4. How does the author picture the "eternal somethings" that he and H. would be after this life?
(a) Spheres.
(b) Corpses.
(c) Angels.
(d) Emptiness.

5. Who has just died?
(a) The author's best friend.
(b) The author's wife.
(c) The author's mother.
(d) The author's neighbor.

Short Answer Questions

1. By the end of the second chapter, what does the author think about human contemplation of God?

2. In the first chapter, who does the author say had died several years ago?

3. How does the author close the second chapter?

4. What do Bridge-players tell the author makes the game serious?

5. What was the difference between the author's and H.'s sufferings?

(see the answer key)

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