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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the very end of the second chapter, to what or whom does the author compare himself?
(a) Job.
(b) A missing link.
(c) The Prodigal Son.
(d) A ship missing an engine.

2. What kind of understanding did the author have of H.'s dying?
(a) An understanding of knowing death was approaching.
(b) An intellectual understanding.
(c) An understanding of the physical pain.
(d) The same understanding that H. had.

3. What one thing has sufficient force to rattle one's faith, according to the author in Chapter Three?
(a) Losing faith in God.
(b) One's own illness.
(c) Explosive anger.
(d) Suffering.

4. What does the author think lessens the horror of a terminal illness?
(a) Living with it.
(b) When death finally comes.
(c) Studying about the disease.
(d) Contracting it oneself.

5. What quality did the author admire so much about H.?
(a) Her wisdom.
(b) Her sense of humor.
(c) Her love for their children.
(d) Her detachment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lewis think people who grieve should do?

2. Who quoted to the author, "Do not mourn like those that have no hope."?

3. What feeling is the author surprised to discover that grief resembles?

4. In Chapter Three, what is the author finally able to do?

5. What does the author think might have influenced his love for H.?

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