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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 does the author prefer to the "feelings, feelings, feelings"?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Rational thought.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Work as a distraction.

2. How does the author say that people react to someone in a room with them?
(a) As if the person is God.
(b) To an idea of the person.
(c) As if the person already is dead.
(d) To the truth of the person.

3. If sorrow does not require a map, what does it require?
(a) A final statement.
(b) A lecture.
(c) The Bible.
(d) A history.

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

5. According to the author, what kind of faith cannot survive a serious challenge such as death?
(a) The only kind of faith that is possible.
(b) The faith of the saints.
(c) A house of cards.
(d) An impossible faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the author think that grief feels like suspense?

2. Why does the author ask God to treat H. tenderly?

3. What do Bridge-players tell the author makes the game serious?

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

5. What does the author think that H. would have thought must happen to weak faith?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter Three, what does Lewis come to see about his love for H. and his faith in God?

2. At the beginning of Chapter Three, when does Lewis acknowledge that he does not think about H.? What is life like when Lewis is not thinking about H.?

3. What does Lewis write that his notes ultimately have been about?

4. At the beginning of Chapter Four, why does Lewis decide that he will not fill more than four journals?

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

6. Why does Lewis think that H.'s physical anguish might not have ended when she died? What images does Lewis use when reflecting on what happens to H. after she died?

7. What feelings follow from Lewis's experiences when he is not thinking about H.? How is his feeling related to his grief?

8. What human conditions does Lewis admit that he can never fully examine?

9. In what way does Lewis's previous acceptance of death and mourning alter with H.'s death?

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

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