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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What purpose do images of H. serve for the author?
(a) They remind the author of H.'s exact presence.
(b) They are links.
(c) They remind the author of God.
(d) They bring Christ to mind.

2. What does the author think might have influenced his love for H.?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Reflection of the author's love of God.
(c) A desire to have children.
(d) Egoism.

3. What important personal process does the author begin in the course of Chapter Three?
(a) Rebuiilding his faith.
(b) Leaving his career.
(c) Writing another book.
(d) Moving to a new home.

4. What does the author say can shatter the author's idea of God?
(a) If the author changes his idea.
(b) Scripture.
(c) God Himself.
(d) Religious reflections.

5. How many hours of healthy sleep did the author finally get in Chapter Three?
(a) 24 hours.
(b) 12 hours.
(c) 10 hours.
(d) 8 hours.

6. At the beginning of Chapter Four, what impossible result does the author admit he thought his records could achieve?
(a) Bring happiness to his children.
(b) Bring H. back.
(c) Make a map of sorrow.
(d) End the author's grief.

7. What does the author say is one of the miracles of love?
(a) The gift of healing.
(b) The ability to explain.
(c) The power to see through enchantments.
(d) The power of forgiveness.

8. What does the author think it means if human suffering is unnecessary?
(a) That Satan causes suffering.
(b) That humans bring on their own suffering.
(c) That human suffering is an illusion.
(d) Either there is no God or He is bad.

9. By Chapter Four, how many gains does the author claim to have made?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 0.
(d) 1.

10. To what does the author compare physical pain?
(a) A life without God.
(b) A steady barrage in a wartime trench.
(c) A concentration camp.
(d) A broken relationship.

11. What characterizes any changes that the author has experienced?
(a) They are frightening.
(b) He is not aware of them.
(c) They are sudden.
(d) They are unobservable.

12. In Chapter Three, to what does the author compare grief?
(a) A game of Bridge.
(b) A lost friendship.
(c) A veterinarian.
(d) A bomber circling round and round.

13. What does the author suspect is the real answer to reality?
(a) Some shattering simplicity.
(b) There are no real answers.
(c) This life is Heaven.
(d) Reality is a curse.

14. Who had recorded some arithmetic in one of the books the author found?
(a) C. S.
(b) R.
(c) J.
(d) H.

15. In the third chapter, what does the author decide is happening to his wife in the next life?
(a) She has become an angel.
(b) Absolutely nothing.
(c) She is perfected in God's eyes.
(d) God continues to "temper her."

Short Answer Questions

1. Against what were the author's records written?

2. What does the author say cannot compare with physical pain?

3. What does the author prefer to the "feelings, feelings, feelings"?

4. What one thing has sufficient force to rattle one's faith, according to the author in Chapter Three?

5. How does the author say that people react to someone in a room with them?

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