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

2. Friends give value to which of the following, according to Lewis?

3. Based on Lewis' observations, what level of emphasis do modern writers place on friendship?

4. A person's affection for animals, Lewis asserts, tends to drain which of the following?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does the author, in the Eros section of his book, explain that love is more than just physical?

5. What does the author write in relation to a form of stereotype labeling that tends to follow friends of the same sex?

6. Describe the "battle of the sexes" that the author writes about in the friendship section of his book.

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

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

9. 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?

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

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 writes about affection being a simple type of love that even cats and dogs have the capacity to give. In fact, he notes that a prime, basic example of affection is the type that a dog has for a man, who like man, shows affection in association with the familiar. Write an essay that correlates some of the common traits that Lewis points out between affection displayed and experienced by a dog with that of a man (or woman). Does Lewis skillfully do that to prepare the reader for the introduction of charity on a higher plane at the end of the book? Or do you view the order that Lewis has presented the different types of love as unplanned? State and support your position.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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