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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. Lewis points out that both men and women want which of the following in addition to a spouse or a significant other?
2. According to Lewis, most people regard friendship as being which of the following in relation to all the kinds of love?
3. Lewis asserts that an individual in a crowd of a different opinion tends to be which of the following?
4. Lewis cites that when men in a certain neighborhood spend their time working while the women may have pursued literary or artistic interests, how are the women likely to label the men?
5. Lewis states that "a person who spends time spoiling a dog" doesn't have time to do 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. Describe the "battle of the sexes" that the author writes about in the friendship section of his book.
3. What does the author observe about the necessity of friendship?
4. What was it that the author listed that Mrs. Fidget did for her family?
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 does the author note in relation to pitfalls associated with animals?
7. 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.
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 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 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
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.
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