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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Lewis observes that a person who truly appreciates a cross-section of humanity is capable of interacting with people from which of the following?
2. What two types of love does a mother provide for her baby, according to Lewis?
3. Nature, writes Lewis, should not be used as a means to justify which of the following?
4. In Lewis' example of an individual making his way toward his ultimate destination, each movement that he makes puts him at which of the following distances from his goal?
5. According to Lewis, when will our need for God end?
Short Essay Questions
1. To what does the author equate the idea of people putting their country, themselves, and their race in the best possible light?
2. What example does the author provide to illustrate that affection does not need to be earned, but simply felt for the familiar?
3. Why, based on the author's assertions, do people not want foreigners to take over the governance of their country?
4. How does the author manage to incorporate patriotism into a book that is supposed to be focused on love?
5. What topic(s) does author C.S. Lewis share with the reader in the opening pages of his book that relate to his personal experience about writing a book focused on love?
6. What words of encouragement does the author have for the mother who feels that her child no longer needs her?
7. What is one way that the author exemplifies "need love"?
8. What is an example of "gift love" that the author describes as he continues sharing his observations on the subject of love?
9. What does the author allude to as being the determinant for the type of rulers who govern a country?
10. How does the author describe "appreciative love"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The question regarding whether men and women can be friends comes up during the course of Lewis' explanation of the love type known as friendship. It is a complicated web that Lewis spins as he attempts to establish whether men and women can be friends. Unravel that web that Lewis has spun, and write an essay explaining your understanding of what the author attempts to convey and conclude about the possibility of friendships blooming and lasting between women and men.
Essay Topic 2
Author Lewis places charity above all the other loves that he describes in his book. Do you agree with his assertion that charity is the ultimate type of love to pursue and possess? Do you disagree? Why or why not? Write an essay elaborating on the aforementioned observations and questions that have been raised as you have been reading and studying The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis.
Essay Topic 3
Lewis makes quite a distinction about the variations of love. He describes the difference between "like" and "love," referring to "love" as being at the high end of the spectrum of love, putting it at the opposite end of what he calls "the lowest form of love, "like." He also includes comments and suggestions about what is considered to be acceptable regarding the use of "love" in relation to inanimate objects, noting that it is more acceptable to use "like" in those cases. (i.e. "I like strawberries" rather than "I love strawberries"). Write an essay describing any change(s) in vocabulary or lifestyle that you have begun to exercise since reading Lewis' work and descriptions of love. Also elaborate on whether reading his book has inspired you to want to make any changes in your life In relation to charity, the type of love that Lewis regards as being the ultimate type of love available, that should be sought by mankind.
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