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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. Lewis notes that in prior times, having friendships appeared to raise a person to which of the following?
(a) "Level of immense popularity in the community."
(b) "High level of reverence and respect."
(c) "Level of high authority."
(d) "Level of gods or angels."

2. Lewis equates meeting around the dinner table for conversation as which of the following?
(a) A time for reflection on the day's events.
(b) A social opportunity.
(c) An opportunity to plan the following day.
(d) A time to eat the lightest meal of the day.

3. Lewis cites that friendship expects which of the following in return for help?
(a) Loyalty.
(b) Reciprocal assistance.
(c) Hourly pay.
(d) Nothing in return.

4. Which of the following is the single element that Lewis mentions to be instrumental in helping an individual find sufficient strength to stand up before the masses for his/her belief(s)?
(a) Psychological counseling.
(b) Strength of friends behind them.
(c) Strength of family behind them.
(d) Hypnosis.

5. What does Lewis note that a person who is in love with a friend will do in relation to losing the love or the friendship equally?
(a) Not regret that it happened.
(b) Regret that it happened.
(c) Be indifferent about its occurrence.
(d) Be relieved that it happened.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Lewis deem necessary for a man and a woman to make a long-term relationship work?

2. What does Lewis cite as being a possibility of being accomplished by a small group of friends?

3. According to Lewis, which is the least natural of the loves that he focuses on in his book?

4. According to Lewis' story illustrating perversion, which of the following can occur if an individual tends to every need that is perceived in relation to their object of affection?

5. Which of the following is an unconventional basis for friendship that Lewis cites?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the actual tasks that the author lists in connection with what Mrs. Fidget did for her family.

2. What does the author write in relation to a form of stereotype labeling that tends to follow friends of the same sex?

3. Describe the observations that the author makes in relation to the workplace playing an instrumental role in the formation of friendships between men and women.

4. What are the underlying traits of jealousy that author C.S. Lewis points out?

5. What are some of the exclusion elements relevant to friendship that the author points out?

6. Describe some of the profound observations that the author makes about the real value of friendship.

7. How does the author provide insight to how a man is able to retain his choice of friends despite attempts to eliminate them from his presence that may be made by the woman in his life?

8. How does the author support his contention that there is advantage to numbers beyond two when applied to friendship?

9. What does the author observe about the necessity of friendship?

10. What does the author say about the possibility of men and women forming and maintaining friendships?

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