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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: p. 61-71.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of all of the things to do when comforting someone who is in pain because of grief, what is the greatest thing to do?
(a) Listen to the one who is hurting.
(b) Love.
(c) Acknowledge the grief.
(d) Hug.

2. On page 61, in what type of land does Nicholas find it difficult to sing?
(a) This dry and weary land.
(b) This barren land.
(c) This desolate land.
(d) This sorrowing land.

3. What does Nicholas remember lifting Eric from when he was born?
(a) A hospital isolette.
(b) A cradle.
(c) His mother's womb.
(d) A crib.

4. What were people squeezing at the store when Nicholas was shopping?
(a) Watermelons.
(b) Melons.
(c) Pomegranates.
(d) Pears.

5. What poet wrote about "inscape"?
(a) Robert Browning.
(b) G. K. Chesterton.
(c) Gerard Manley Hopkins.
(d) Matthew Arnold.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Nicholas say looks neither behind nor ahead because her humanity is just beginning?

2. What book of the Bible does Nicholas mention that speaks of the coming of the day of shalom?

3. What are some people gifted with when someone is suffering?

4. What was the weather like when Nicholas received the call that Eric died?

5. What does Nicholas say that he had to fly across to retrieve Eric's body?

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