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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 is different about the people approaching from the mountain than the passengers on the bus?
2. How much does a man in line offer the woman to trade places?
3. What does the Solid Man say he is here to be for the Big Man?
4. How far does the narrator make it walking for an hour in Chapter 6?
5. What does the ghost leaning against the tree chew on?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the man in the bowler hat believe would make the people in the gray town satisfied?
2. What did the two chaps find when they set out to look for Napoleon?
3. Describe the setting in which the narrator finds himself in at the beginning of the book.
4. What has the Conscientious Objector encountered since his death? Why is he on the bus?
5. What is remarkable about the other passengers once they are off the bus?
6. Why does the man in the bowler hat tell the narrator the gray town seemed so desolate?
7. What does the solid person tell the Big Man about Jack?
8. Describe the bus and the bus driver.
9. What does the Bright Person ask the ghost of the Fat Man about his father? What does the ghost say the Bright Person was wrong about?
10. What does the place appear as when the narrator gets off the bus?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the terms "Parable" and "Allegory." What characteristics does The Great Divorce share with these styles? Define the terms and cite examples of these characteristics from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the role that "pride" plays in The Great Divorce. Which characters are afflicted with the sin of pride? How? What does the author illuminate regarding pride as a sin? Does he have a "moral" regarding this subject?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Lewis' use of irony in The Great Divorce. What are the three forms of irony? Give an example of each within the novel.
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