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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 type of pleasure can lead an individual to vice?
(a) Genuine pleasure.
(b) Absolute pleasure.
(c) Desire pleasure.
(d) Superficial pleasure.

2. A person enjoying a glass of water is illustrative of which of the following types of pleasure, according to Lewis?
(a) Temporary pleasure.
(b) Need pleasure.
(c) Genuine pleasure.
(d) Desire pleasure.

3. Lewis writes that human emotion tends to lead people toward doing which of the following?
(a) Judge others by themselves.
(b) Seek genuine love.
(c) Be fearful of love.
(d) Allow others to influence them for the sake of acceptance and approval.

4. What Lewis describes as taking place when love consumes a person's life and takes over can be referred to as which of the following?
(a) Addiction.
(b) Perseverance.
(c) Dominance.
(d) Devotion.

5. According to Lewis, a person should constantly be doing which of the following?
(a) Educating himself/herself.
(b) Helping others.
(c) Constantly growing closer to God.
(d) In tune with nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lewis notes that a true nature lover is more interested in which of the following?

2. According to Lewis, when is it that problems in love arise?

3. Which type of pleasure, according to Lewis, lasts only as long as the need for it does?

4. According to Lewis, individuals are able to do which of the following in relation to the need pleasures of others?

5. Nature, writes Lewis, should not be used as a means to justify which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is an example of "gift love" that the author describes as he continues sharing his observations on the subject of love?

2. To what does the author equate the idea of people putting their country, themselves, and their race in the best possible light?

3. What does the author allude to as being the determinant for the type of rulers who govern a country?

4. Describe the love-related warning that the author issues to the reader.

5. What are the four types of love that the author mentions in relation to the forthcoming focus of his book?

6. What term does the author use to describe the event in which love is allowed to grow too far out of bounds, and problems arise that ultimately result in the takeover of a person's life?

7. What does the author clarify adult feelings for "need love" to be?

8. How does the author incorporate the use of a glass of water to illustrate "need pleasure"?

9. What interesting observation does the author write about in relation to a friend becoming an "old friend"?

10. What example does the author provide to illustrate that affection does not need to be earned, but simply felt for the familiar?

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