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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 types of love, according to Lewis, are subject to the effects of jealousy?

2. According to Lewis, what is likely to happen if a woman deprives her husband or significant other from friendships with others?

3. During the Romantic period, according to Lewis, people turned their attention away from friendship, and toward which of the following?

4. According to Lewis, what is the reason that people are tempted to overstep the bounds of affection?

5. Lewis represents Venus to be exactly which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the author observe about the necessity of friendship?

4. How does the author, in the Eros part of his book, place the act of eating at the same level of importance as the physical part of love?

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

6. Describe the observations that the author makes in relation to the workplace playing an instrumental role in the formation of friendships between men and women.

7. What does the author say about the possibility of men and women forming and maintaining friendships?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

With respect to the final portion of the book in which the author focuses on charity, the question is whether you agree that it appears as though Lewis' comparison between charity and human love is somewhat biased in nature? If so, explain why, and how the author attempts to turn it in favor of charity or in favor of human love. Support your opinion and/or observations by incorporating either direct quotes and/or paraphrasing from the text.

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

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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