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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. 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?
2. A man who works, saves, and plans for his family's future, according to Lewis, is exhibiting which type of love?
3. Lewis notes that a true nature lover is more interested in which of the following?
4. Which of the following does Lewis cite as being at the bottom of love?
5. According to Lewis, when is it that problems in love arise?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the author use to amend to the list of favorable attributes relating to affection?
2. Why, based on the author's assertions, do people not want foreigners to take over the governance of their country?
3. Describe the love-related warning that the author issues to the reader.
4. How does the author manage to incorporate patriotism into a book that is supposed to be focused on love?
5. Describe the introduction to The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis.
6. How does the author describe "appreciative love"?
7. To what does the author equate the idea of people putting their country, themselves, and their race in the best possible light?
8. What does the author clarify adult feelings for "need love" to be?
9. How does author C.S. Lewis describe affection?
10. What example does the author provide to illustrate that affection does not need to be earned, but simply felt for the familiar?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Friendship and affection, according to Lewis, are not connected, but rather are separate emotions. Write an essay explaining what you understand Lewis is referring to in relation to friendship and affection being separate emotions, and elaborate on whether you agree or disagree with Lewis on that point. Support your position with direct text or paraphrase.
Essay Topic 2
Author C.S. Lewis describes love all along its spectrum, starting with its lowest form ("like") to its highest form ("charity"). Write an essay about the type of love that Lewis described that made the best impression on you. Elaborate on a particular detail(s) that the author provided that you did not know about the love that you have chosen to focus upon.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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