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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 repelled Nicholas when he walked into a store?
(a) The hustle and bustle in the store.
(b) Seeing Eric's old friends.
(c) The people who gave him their condolences.
(d) The ordinariness of what he saw.

2. What book of the Bible does Nicholas mention that speaks of the coming of the day of shalom?
(a) Lamentations.
(b) Jeremiah.
(c) Isaiah.
(d) Revelation.

3. On page 56, what did a friend remark about grief?
(a) It isolates.
(b) It scores the soul.
(c) It divides.
(d) It separates.

4. What does Nicholas look forward to doing on the Great Day when all will be reunited?
(a) Throwing himself into the arms of those he's wronged and saying, "I'm sorry."
(b) Being able to worship at God's throne.
(c) Being able to sing with the angels.
(d) Being able to dispense with guilt.

5. On page 66, a friend mentions to Nicholas that the message of a book in the Bible is the endurance of faith. What book of the Bible has this theme?
(a) Job.
(b) Psalms.
(c) Proverbs.
(d) John.

Short Answer Questions

1. What author, in writing about the death of his wife was plainly angry with God?

2. What is a soul that pants for God compared to in a scripture passage that Nicholas quotes on page 71?

3. On page 66, what did a friend say he saw during Eric's funeral?

4. Who wrote "God too is pained by death, more even than you and I are; but there's nothing much he can do about it"?

5. What types of days can Nicholas, on page 61, say he can manage?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do innocent questions make Nicholas wince?

2. Why did the ordinariness bother Nicholas when he walked into a store?

3. On page 76, what does a bitter, suffering friend tell Nicholas?

4. In Section 8, what is said about what it means to be human?

5. Who are the mourners?

6. What will Nicholas do rather than turn away from death?

7. In what respects does man mirror God?

8. What has Nicholas become in the world since Eric's death?

9. Is there a firm answer to why humans suffer?

10. How is what the Stoics said different from what Jesus said about mourning?

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