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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Of what disease did H. die?
(a) Leukemia.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Emphysema.
(d) Brain tumor.

4. In what sense does the author feel isolated from his wife?
(a) He cannot enter into her experience of dying.
(b) She cannot come home from the hospital.
(c) He thinks she will not miss him.
(d) He cannot express his fears to her.

5. In his grief, where did the author want to revisit?
(a) France.
(b) The places he and H. had been happiest.
(c) Confession.
(d) The United States.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is H.'s real name?

2. What sense does the first chapter end with?

3. Who said, "Why have you forsaken me?"

4. What quality best characterizes the author's reflections?

5. What does the author conclude about the way that lovers feel about the other one's death?

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