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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. Which of the following labels does Lewis use in referring to the human body?
(a) "Vehicle of Creation."
(b) "Vehicle of the Blessed Sacrament."
(c) "Vehicle of Embodiment"
(d) "Vehicle of Life."

2. What is the key to having friends, according to Lewis?
(a) Being trustworthy.
(b) Cultivating acquaintances into friendships.
(c) Being approachable in public places.
(d) Sharing a common thing.

3. Lewis asserts that an individual in a crowd of a different opinion tends to be which of the following?
(a) Resentful.
(b) Argumentative.
(c) Timid.
(d) Submissive.

4. 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 relieved that it happened.
(d) Be indifferent about its occurrence.

5. Which of the following does Lewis assert that women want?
(a) Someone with whom to share life.
(b) To be the object of one's affection.
(c) Notoriety.
(d) A successful career.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lewis makes it a point to label which of the following as a serious topic?

2. Which of the following is the name of the individual whom Lewis uses in his illustrative story about refusing to release the notion of being needed?

3. Which of the following, according to Lewis, lend support to the belief that Eros is a higher type of love?

4. According to Lewis, jealousy is applicable to which of the following in relation to affection?

5. Lewis cites that most of our ancestors went into marriage without which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. The author basically implies that despite promising to do so, human beings are not capable of establishing everlasting love, and provides support for his assertion. How does he accomplish that?

2. What is a process that the author mentions that evokes affection in return?

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. Describe the example that the author mentions in the friendship section of his book that can actually be labeled as "the opposite of friendship."

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

6. How does the author support his assertion that both single and married women seek ways to cross the barriers that keep them from establishing friendships with men?

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

8. What does the author note in relation to pitfalls associated with animals?

9. How does the author, in the Eros part of his book, place the act of eating at the same level of importance as the physical part of love?

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

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