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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 are some people gifted with when someone is suffering?
(a) Words of wisdom.
(b) Words of faith.
(c) Words of kindness.
(d) Words of encouragement.

2. What became Eric's major?
(a) Science.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Computer science.
(d) Art history.

3. Where does Nicholas say that people need to go to comfort him?
(a) Come close.
(b) Spend time with him and his family.
(c) Visit him at home.
(d) Come to the cemetery.

4. Where did Eric die?
(a) Volderdorf.
(b) Kaisergebirger.
(c) Hinterdorf.
(d) Kaiserhaus.

5. Where were Nicholas and Eric when Eric wondered how he could know there is a God?
(a) Taking a walk.
(b) At the park.
(c) In the car.
(d) In Eric's bedroom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nicholas remember lifting Eric from when he was born?

2. How old was Eric when he died?

3. One of Nicholas's friends had a son who died several weeks before Eric. How did this young man die?

4. Who made a special cloth used during the funeral?

5. What did Eric spend much of one summer helping to rebuild?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it necessary for some to see the body of the one who died?

2. What would Nicholas do if the clock could be turned back?

3. Why does Nicholas say that Eric's body was his to claim?

4. What did Nicholas and his family decide to do with Eric's things?

5. What was Eric's thesis to explore?

6. Why does Nicholas say that the family took Eric for granted?

7. What does Nicholas not want to hear as he grieves?

8. What does Nicholas say should be said or done with someone who is suffering?

9. Why did Nicholas feel that it was a cruel mockery that Eric's backpack and boots were unscathed?

10. How did Nicholas learn that his son died?

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