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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the author, what would happen if two lovers died at the exact some moment?
(a) They would still die alone.
(b) It would be as if they never died.
(c) They would go to Heaven together.
(d) They would not recognize each other.

3. How long does the author think his suffering will last?
(a) For about a year.
(b) As long as it must.
(c) Not much longer.
(d) Forever.

4. Who is H.?
(a) The author's brother.
(b) A friend from the author's past.
(c) A faculty member.
(d) The author's wife.

5. In the second chapter, what does the author reason God must do if He hurts people so in this life?
(a) That God does not really hurt people at all.
(b) It is not an issue.
(c) That God continues to hurt people after death.
(d) That He releases people from all pain

6. What does the author say is human history's cruel joke?
(a) That there is no promise in Jesus's life and death.
(b) That there is no after life.
(c) That God is hateful.
(d) That this life makes no sense.

7. What pseudonym did the author use?
(a) C. S. Lewis.
(b) N. W. Clerk.
(c) Joy Gresham.
(d) J. R. R. Tolkien.

8. In Chapter Two, what does the author say is one more name for death?
(a) Time.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Grief.
(d) Religion.

9. What theory about God does the author dismiss?
(a) That God does not love human beings.
(b) That God causes people to die.
(c) That God is close to those who suffer.
(d) That God is a figment of human imagination.

10. What does the author conclude about the way that lovers feel about the other one's death?
(a) The feelings are exactly the same.
(b) The feelings are complementary.
(c) The feelings are in opposition.
(d) The feelings are overpowering.

11. What is Lewis' state of mind?
(a) Denial.
(b) Agony.
(c) Bitterness.
(d) Acceptance.

12. Where does the author feel his loss the most?
(a) In his body.
(b) At work.
(c) At the park.
(d) In his home.

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

14. What was the difference between the author's and H.'s sufferings?
(a) One of them did not suffer at all.
(b) There was no difference.
(c) They were very different experiences.
(d) The experiences changed all the time without warning.

15. How does the author picture the "eternal somethings" that he and H. would be after this life?
(a) Spheres.
(b) Angels.
(c) Corpses.
(d) Emptiness.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the author determine holds no promise of a happy afterlife?

3. What, if any, were H.'s last words?

4. How does the author close the second chapter?

5. How does the author say a mother who has lost a child responds to words of comfort about where the child is?

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