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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What practical problem did H.'s death solve?
(a) The author learned how to cope with grief.
(b) The author learned how to confront his own mortality.
(c) The author cannot put her ahead of God.
(d) It bridged the author's distance from God.

2. For the author, what element does praise always contain?
(a) Gratitude.
(b) Humility.
(c) Joy.
(d) Awe.

3. What does the author think about people who are not offended by iconoclasm?
(a) They are fools.
(b) They are God's chosen people.
(c) Bless them.
(d) Curse them.

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

5. Thinking so much about his grief causes the author to doubt what?
(a) His faith in God.
(b) His sanity.
(c) His memories of H.
(d) His love for H.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, what kind of faith cannot survive a serious challenge such as death?

2. Why could the author's records not achieve his intended purpose?

3. What does the author decide in Chapter Three is more important that being treated gently by God?

4. How many hours of healthy sleep did the author finally get in Chapter Three?

5. What kinds of mortal questions does the author think that God cannot answer?

Short Essay Questions

1. In addition to a sword, what other metaphor does Lewis use to describe H. to establish a balanced view?

2. What is the difference between how Lewis earlier understood biblical consolations and how he came to understand them?

3. How does Lewis admit that he goes about restoring his faith?

4. What choices does Lewis think that people have when it comes to their ideas about God?

5. Toward what does Lewis turn when he becomes overwhelmed by feelings?

6. What enormous gain in his sense of God and of H. has Lewis made by the fourth chapter?

7. What is an imperfect religious image with which Lewis is familiar? What is Lewis's reflection on this image?

8. What question does Lewis ask to begin to reason his way through his pain? How does this question lead Lewis onto new ground?

9. How does the consolation that previously so wearied Lewis, "She is in God's hands", strike Lewis by the last chapter?

10. What is the difference between how Lewis felt at the beginning of the book and how he feels at the end of his reflections?

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