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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the early stage of the author's grief, what was one emotion he felt toward God?
(a) Acceptance.
(b) Bliss.
(c) Companionship.
(d) Anger.

3. In what sense does the author agree that H. is with God, as some friends say?
(a) Like God, H. is unimaginable.
(b) Like God, the author must believe H. exists without proof.
(c) Like God, H. responds to prayer.
(d) Like God, H. is all-knowing.

4. Of what emotion does grief remind the author?
(a) Gratitude.
(b) Fear.
(c) Acceptance.
(d) Hatred.

5. For the author, what are human characterizations of God?
(a) Grandiose characterizations.
(b) Accurate descriptions.
(c) Delusions.
(d) Anthropomorphism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does God seem to respond to the author's agony?

2. What sense does the first chapter end with?

3. At the end of Chapter Two, what does the author think about his reflections?

4. What feeling characterizes the second section?

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

(see the answer key)

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