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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What quality did the author admire so much about H.?
(a) Her sense of humor.
(b) Her wisdom.
(c) Her love for their children.
(d) Her detachment.

2. Who has just died?
(a) The author's neighbor.
(b) The author's mother.
(c) The author's wife.
(d) The author's best friend.

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

4. In what way does the author crave to be touched by H.?
(a) On the heavenly plane.
(b) In his dreams.
(c) On the astral plane.
(d) Upon the plane of nature.

5. If death is real, what does the author conclude about it?
(a) That its existence is irrelevant.
(b) That the author has no reason to keep living.
(c) That it matters more than anything.
(d) That God does not care if people die.

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

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

8. Who reacts in shame when the author talks about his wife?
(a) The author's minister.
(b) The author's colleagues.
(c) Their sons.
(d) The author's brother.

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

10. Who quoted to the author, "Do not mourn like those that have no hope."?
(a) B. R.
(b) H.
(c) C.
(d) The author's brother.

11. What quality best characterizes the author's reflections?
(a) Anger.
(b) Irrationality.
(c) Logic.
(d) Fear.

12. Whose suffering troubles the author the most?
(a) H.'s
(b) His own.
(c) His children's.
(d) His parents'.

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

14. At the end of Chapter Two, what does the author think about his reflections?
(a) That the author is close to understanding why his wife died.
(b) That he is growing closer to God.
(c) They are senseless.
(d) That God will answer all of the author's questions.

15. What is the "state" of heaven, according to the author?
(a) Where the dead live in eternal bliss.
(b) Where God answers all questions.
(c) Where one "puts away childish things."
(d) "Where the former things have passed away."

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom has the author had no difficulty praying?

2. In what discipline was the author educated?

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

4. What does the author say combats the idea of God's mindless cruelty?

5. What does the author finally decide about the reality of death?

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