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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the author view the world that H. left behind?
(a) Welcoming.
(b) Uninteresting and trivial.
(c) Hostile.
(d) Engaging.

2. How does the author say a mother who has lost a child responds to words of comfort about where the child is?
(a) She is relieved.
(b) She wants to join the child.
(c) She is grateful.
(d) She is not comforted.

3. With what same quality does the author think his love for H. shared?
(a) The author's love for his children.
(b) The beauty of nature.
(c) The author's intellect.
(d) The author's faith in God.

4. What is the only thing, according to the author, that tests the reality of a belief?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Love.
(c) A real risk.
(d) Prayer.

5. How do some of the author's friends try to console him?
(a) That H. is no longer suffering.
(b) That the author's children bring him comfort.
(c) That the author will love again.
(d) With the promise of "reunions on the further shore."

Short Answer Questions

1. Rather than relying upon his memory of his wife, what does the author want?

2. To what length would the author have gone if it could have cured H.'s cancer?

3. What does the author think might have influenced his faith in God?

4. What effect did the author's experience of H. have on him?

5. What accounts for a mother's response to comforting words regarding a lost child?

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