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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For whom has the author had no difficulty praying?
(a) Strangers.
(b) Those who have died other than his wife.
(c) His children.
(d) His wife.

2. What literary genre is A Grief Observed?
(a) Horror.
(b) Non-fiction.
(c) Fiction.
(d) Suspense.

3. How does the author know that the end of this life is all about heavenly reunions?
(a) He had a vision.
(b) Reality never repeats.
(c) It says so in the Bible.
(d) He and H. discussed it.

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

5. What accounts for a mother's response to comforting words regarding a lost child?
(a) Confidence in Scripture.
(b) Faith in God.
(c) Detachment from death.
(d) Mothering instinct.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of the third chapter, what does the author say is the reason he does not think about H. all the time?

2. How does the author decide he must consider death?

3. Who is the main character in the book?

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

5. Whose suffering troubles the author the most?

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