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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Way of Grief.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Van end his letters in "The Way of Grief?"
(a) All will never be the same.
(b) All my love.
(c) All shall be most well.
(d) All is as it should be.

2. What did Van compare seeing all the "Davies" to?
(a) A novel.
(b) A song.
(c) A poem.
(d) A portrait.

3. Why did Van consider changing his major to theology?
(a) Because it paid well.
(b) Because of how he felt writing "The Sands."
(c) Because Lewis suggested it.
(d) Because he felt a calling.

4. What type of death did C.S. Lewis say is least perilous to the survivor?
(a) Death of old age.
(b) Death that was accidental.
(c) Death during a period of love.
(d) Death that was watched by God.

5. What did Van and Davy do the day before Pearl Harbor was bombed?
(a) Sailed a boat.
(b) Built a bomb shelter.
(c) Ate dinner with friends.
(d) Went fishing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the gust of wind in "The Way of Grief" make Van think of?

2. What emotion did Lewis praise in Van in "The Way of Grief?"

3. What did C.S. Lewis tell Van and Davy during their final lunch together at Oxford?

4. Why did Van borrow back the letters Davy wrote to her friends?

5. What advice did C.S. Lewis give Van after Davy's death?

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