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

2. According to Lewis, what did the character whom he used to illustrate perversion in gift love constantly tell others in relation to her family?

3. Lewis equates the vows of Eros to those of which of the following?

4. Lewis states that those who feel that they may be losing a loved one to change are fearful of which of the following?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the author support his assertion that both single and married women seek ways to cross the barriers that keep them from establishing friendships with men?

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. What was it that the author listed that Mrs. Fidget did for her family?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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

One question that can be addressed is whether Lewis assumed that everyone reading his book would reach and read its last section on charity. Is the idea conceivable that not every one of his readers read the book in its entirety and missed his hard-hitting message about the nature of charity at the end? Which type of love inspires you and do you strive for after having read Lewis' book? Are you still applying like, love, affection, and friendship in the traditional way, or viewing them in a different way that has led you away from it and toward seeking charity?

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