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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What aspect of an afterlife does the author say differs completely from this life?
(a) Burial.
(b) Hell.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Reincarnation.

4. To what ultimate fate does the author resign himself?
(a) Life with God.
(b) Understanding the meaning of life and death.
(c) Death.
(d) Reunion with H.

5. How long were the author and H. married?
(a) Three years.
(b) One year.
(c) Six months.
(d) Ten years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author state causes human beings to regard God falsely?

2. What feeling characterizes the second section?

3. How do some of the author's friends try to console him?

4. According to the author, if he searched the universe for H., what would happen?

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

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