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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. Affection can transcend education, gender, social class, and which of the following?

2. According to Lewis, what does affection expand to when the person upon whom affection is directed is gone?

3. Lewis cites that which of the following can be deemed heroic?

4. Unlike affection, Lewis writes, people feel that they have to take action in order to attract which of the following?

5. According to Lewis, an individual must take which of the following to reach his/her ultimate destination?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe "appreciative love"?

2. What are some common traits in a person enjoying appreciative pleasure as that the author describes?

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

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

5. What words of encouragement does the author have for the mother who feels that her child no longer needs her?

6. What does the author write in relation to how a person treats affection in his/her life?

7. Describe what the author mentions about our "need love" for God.

8. What is one way that the author exemplifies "need love"?

9. What are the two categories that the author divides all love types into as he begins his discussion on the subject of love?

10. How does the author contradict the widely-accepted belief concerning verification of the theological proposition?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lewis describes friendship as the least jealous of the loves. Further, he states that a couple of friends will gladly accept another into their group, and that a friend is always there to help and expects nothing in return. Write an essay expressing your opinion on Lewis' statements regarding the aforementioned positive attributes of friendship, and which aspect of friendship you would tend to appreciate the most. Explain why, and whether Lewis' writings have changed your ideas and/or attitude toward friendship.

Essay Topic 2

Lewis stops short of the last chapter, but throughout the chapters preceding the last, he carries a couple of common messages that he does not want the reader to miss. One of them is that all types of love are capable of becoming all-consuming if allowed to do so by devoting a lot of time and energy toward preserving it. However, with respect to charity, the author seems to encourage the opposite: spending a lot of time pursuing it and engaging in it. Write an essay stating whether the author spends too much time focusing on the negative aspects of human love as we have been conditioned to know and accept during our lifetimes (i.e. it will not last, that it is directed at specific individuals only), and in contrast, spends a considerable amount of time encouraging the pursuit of and involvement in charity.

Essay Topic 3

C.S. Lewis writes about patriotism, describing it as a type of love (affection) for one's country, and suggests that countrymen tend to claim that only their country has the most beautiful women and the bravest men. He also states that countrymen tend to not to want to talk about unfavorable occurrences in their nation's history, while reserving their talk to tell the heroic tales of their country. Write an essay focusing on the things that Lewis describes can go wrong when a country's citizenry "puff up" their nation's history to put it in a better light. As an addendum to this assignment, write a description of the United States as you know it, and mention a couple of United States historical facts that you would like for a visitor to the United States to know about the U.S.A.

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