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

2. What did Van and Davy do the day before Pearl Harbor was bombed?
(a) Sailed a boat.
(b) Ate dinner with friends.
(c) Built a bomb shelter.
(d) Went fishing.

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

4. Why did Davy and Van take boating lessons?
(a) They wanted to build a boat.
(b) They wanted to live at sea.
(c) They wanted to be in a boat race.
(d) The lessons were free.

5. How did Van's parents feel about his marriage to Davy?
(a) They approved of it.
(b) They disapproved of it.
(c) They did not know about it.
(d) They would not talk to him about it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did C.S. Lewis warn Van can attack his faith in "Thou Art the King of Glory?"

2. How did Van feel when Davy became a Christian?

3. What did C.S. Lewis say human dreams are greater than?

4. What does Van say made him realize the feelings of pain and longing while in Kensington?

5. Why did Van and Davy discuss grammar with Lewis while at Oxford?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Van and Davy call their love the "pagan love"?

2. Why did Davy and Van sail to Oxford at the end of "The Shadow of a Tree?"

3. What did the shadow of the ship's masts in Hawaii make Van think of?

4. How did Van react the first time he returns to Glenmerle?

5. Why did Van and Davy call their schooner Grey Goose?

6. What did Van say happened when he decided to seek the highest of emotions?

7. Why did Davy and Van decide to live at sea?

8. How did Davy and Van protect themselves from "creeping separateness?"

9. What happened when Van and Davy started reading C.S. Lewis novels?

10. How did the bombing of Pearl Harbor affect Van and Davy?

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