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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. Which is the least jealous of the loves, according to Lewis?

2. According to Lewis, which of the following methods is used to attempt to bring those falling into bad habits back into the fold?

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

4. Which of the following does Lewis NOT cite as a factor that may have affected your choice in friends?

5. Lewis asserts that an individual in a crowd of a different opinion tends to be which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. In the Eros section of his book, the author provides an illustration about the instrumental role that Eros plays in a person's state of being in love. How is it illustrated, and how can it be interpreted?

6. What are some of the pitfalls associated with the physical part of being in love, according to the author?

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

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

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

10. What were some of the activities that author Lewis noted as having taken place in the Fidget household after Mrs. Fidget died?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author describes affection as the most basic type of love. Affection ignores all types of barriers, is the most comfortable type of love, and Lewis associates it with familiarity. Write an essay elaborating on those aspects of affection, stating whether you agree or disagree with the author's description of affection.

Essay Topic 2

Based on the information that Lewis offers about charity in the last portion of his book, write an essay addressing your opinion on the following: Do you agree or disagree that it was possible that he published his message about Divine love and charity because he loved mankind and was practicing "charity" himself as he was writing the chapter focusing on it? Or is it possible that he was simply writing it to point out to those reading his book that human love, as we know it, basically is good only in moderation, but not worth pursuing with fervor because of its inherent, all-consuming, ever-present factor that could be hurtful to us?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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