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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Lewis invite Van to Magdalen?
(a) Because he worked there.
(b) Because Van had never been there.
(c) Because he wanted Van to attend class there.
(d) Because he lived near there.

2. What part of Davy first caught Van's attention?
(a) Her eyes.
(b) Her hair.
(c) Her smile.
(d) Her walk.

3. What did Van call "the dirge of a dying world?"
(a) Waikiki.
(b) Pathetique.
(c) Japan.
(d) New York.

4. What helped heal Van's doubt about religion after C.S. Lewis warns him about attacks on his faith?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Love.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Time.

5. Where did Van and Davy live during their first year at Oxford?
(a) Church quarters.
(b) C.S. Lewis' house.
(c) A London townhouse.
(d) A studio apartment.

6. How long had Davy been dead when Van returned to Glenmerle?
(a) Six months.
(b) Nine months.
(c) One month.
(d) Three months.

7. What does Van say staying in Kensington did for him?
(a) Made him smarter.
(b) Made him work harder.
(c) Made England real.
(d) Made him want to travel.

8. Aside from Shakespeare, what other poet does Van admire?
(a) Yates.
(b) Butler.
(c) Keats.
(d) Shelly.

9. Where did Van and Davy sail after the War?
(a) To the East Coast.
(b) The Florida Keys.
(c) To South America.
(d) The Carribbean.

10. What did the man exposing himself make Van and Davy realize is part of all humans?
(a) Logic.
(b) Evil.
(c) Fear.
(d) Power.

11. What did Van and Davy do when they needed to make a decision?
(a) They acted on their first impulse.
(b) They listened to music.
(c) Read books.
(d) They made lists.

12. What did C.S. Lewis believe about Buddhism?
(a) It is the simplified version of Hinduism.
(b) It is the weirdest religion.
(c) It is the more complex version of Hinduism.
(d) It is the cousin to Christianity.

13. What happened when Davy remembered mocking people for having religious faith?
(a) She thought she judged them too fast.
(b) She thought she needed it too.
(c) She never mocked people.
(d) She thought she was right.

14. What did C.S Lewis believe was pursuing Van?
(a) The police.
(b) Davy.
(c) A career in religion.
(d) The Holy Spirit.

15. Why did C.S. Lewis say he started researching Christianity?
(a) He was paid to write its history.
(b) He had a school project.
(c) He wanted it to be true.
(d) He did not want it to be true.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Van honor his love for Davy during their first summer together?

2. Why did Davy and Van decide to get a sailboat?

3. Why did Van go to Blackwell's Booksellers?

4. Why did Van consider changing his major to theology?

5. What was the weather like when Van and Davy married?

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