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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Eros.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What topic does Lewis focus on at the opening of the introduction to his book?
(a) How he decided to write about love.
(b) How he fell in love with his wife.
(c) How he learned to love God.
(d) How he loved his immediate family.

2. Which of the following do we tend to hold onto with respect to affection, according to Lewis?
(a) To what we desire.
(b) To what we feel that we need.
(c) To what we feel to be rightfully ours.
(d) To what is familiar.

3. The most basic of loves, according to Lewis, is which of the following?
(a) Need love.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Affection.
(d) Gift love.

4. Lewis notes that a change in societal attitudes relating to friendship label it as which of the following?
(a) "Friends can become part of an extended family."
(b) "Friends have become something to fill in the chinks."
(c) "Friends have become the main course of life's banquet."
(d) "Friends are like a garden. Cultivate the good ones, and weed out the bad ones."

5. What is the length of Lewis' introduction to his book?
(a) Twelve (12) pages.
(b) Nine (9) pages.
(c) Fourteen (14) pages.
(d) Seven (7) pages.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is one of author C.S. Lewis' categorizations of love?

2. Lewis notes that affection ignores which of the following?

3. A man may seek out friends as a means to fill his need for friends, but also to accomplish which of the following, according to Lewis?

4. Which of the following poets does Lewis quote when he writes, "A man's reason for not wanting his country to be ruled by foreigners are very like his reasons for not wanting his house to be burned down."

5. Who, according to Lewis, is more likely to be consumed by love?

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