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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What lands on Ikey's head once the wind blows?
2. Who says, "I gone straight all my life. I don't say I was a religious man and I don't say I had no faults, far from it. But I done all my best all my life, see?"
3. What has the narrator begun to walk upon in Chapter 3?
4. What does the narrator find to walk upon after the waves become too burdensome?
5. How long does it take Ikey to reach the great tree as the narrator watches?
Short Essay Questions
1. How long does the narrator travel on the river? How far does he go?
2. What does the Bright Person ask the ghost of the Fat Man about his father? What does the ghost say the Bright Person was wrong about?
3. What has the Conscientious Objector encountered since his death? Why is he on the bus?
4. Why does the narrator stop walking on the river? What does he see up the slope?
5. Describe the setting in which the narrator finds himself in at the beginning of the book.
6. What does the narrator see coming down from the mountains to meet the ghosts? What is their appearance?
7. Describe the bus and the bus driver.
8. What is remarkable about the other passengers once they are off the bus?
9. What happens to the Short Man in the line next to the narrator?
10. What does the Hard-Bitten Ghost invite the narrator to do? What is his reply?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the setting in The Great Divorce. Is this setting realistic? Describe the qualities of the gray town, the bus, and the foothills. How are they different?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Lewis' use of irony in The Great Divorce. What are the three forms of irony? Give an example of each within the novel.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the various conflicts in The Great Divorce. Which characters embody internal conflict? Where is external conflict illuminated? Where is the narrator's conflict established in the novel?
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