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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does it mean if there is a good God, according to the author?
(a) Human suffering is unnecessary.
(b) Human beings do not suffer.
(c) Human suffering is necessary.
(d) Suffering is a human invention.

3. Why does the author think that Lazarus got a "raw deal"?
(a) Lazarus did not want to rise from the dead.
(b) Lazarus had to die twice.
(c) Lazarus was a martyr.
(d) Lazarus was still ill when he came back to life.

4. When will the author know if his restored faith is solid?
(a) When he returns to church.
(b) When he no longer misses H.
(c) When the next tragic blow comes.
(d) When he prays daily.

5. What is the author's idea about reunion with the dead?
(a) An extrapolation.
(b) A source of frustration.
(c) A waste of time.
(d) A verifiable reality.

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

7. What did the Incarnation achieve, according to the author?
(a) It raised Lazarus from the dead.
(b) It saved humanity.
(c) It created a religion.
(d) It ruined all previous ideas of the Messiah.

8. What does the author conclude in Chapter Three was the purpose of his earlier rage against God?
(a) To manipulate God.
(b) To know the unknowable.
(c) To help the author redefine his idea of God.
(d) To strike back at God.

9. About what is the author's remaining problem in Chapter Four?
(a) About what God should do.
(b) About what the author can do.
(c) About how to live.
(d) About feelings and motives.

10. At the beginning of the third chapter, what does the author say is the reason he does not think about H. all the time?
(a) His children take up his time.
(b) He tries to distract himself.
(c) He is writing a book.
(d) Work and conversation get in the way.

11. Why can the body suffer so much more than the mind, according to the author?
(a) The mind is capable of evasion.
(b) The mind never suffers.
(c) Because God made it that way.
(d) The body is stronger than the mind.

12. What benefit might the author enjoy by praising God?
(a) Peace of mind.
(b) Enoying H.
(c) Acceptance of H.'s passing.
(d) Closeness with his children.

13. For whose sake was the author's plea, "Come back"?
(a) For his children's sake.
(b) For God's sake.
(c) The author's own sake.
(d) For H.'s sake.

14. What is the only thing the author thinks matters about his anger toward God?
(a) That his anger could bring H. back.
(b) That God is a healer or a sadist.
(c) That the author's anger is justified.
(d) That the author release his anger.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What can the author's grief and memories never achieve?

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

4. If sorrow does not require a map, what does it require?

5. Who had recorded some arithmetic in one of the books the author found?

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