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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 has the narrator begun to walk upon in Chapter 3?
2. What lands on Ikey's head once the wind blows?
3. What is different about the people approaching from the mountain than the passengers on the bus?
4. How far does the narrator make it walking for an hour in Chapter 6?
5. What does the narrator see in the hawthorn bush?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the ghost of the Fat Man say when the Bright Person asks him to go to the mountains with him?
2. Describe the bus and the bus driver.
3. What does the narrator try to pick up after getting off the bus?
4. What does the man in the bowler hat believe would make the people in the gray town satisfied?
5. What does the narrator see coming down from the mountains to meet the ghosts? What is their appearance?
6. How does the Big Man reply when the solid person offers him help up the mountain? What does the solid person try to convince him of?
7. How does the Hard-Bitten Ghost respond to the narrator's suggestion that they will grow more solid as they acclimate to Heaven?
8. What is the ghost in the bushes doing? Who is this ghost?
9. What does the voice call out to Ikey with the golden apples? Where is the voice from? What does Ikey do?
10. What does the narrator do when he sees the bright light? What is the reaction and appearance of the other passengers?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is "Speculative Fiction?" How is The Great Divorce a part of this genre? Who coined the phrase and how is Speculative Fiction differentiated from Science Fiction or Fantasy?
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
Compare and contrast the characters of the narrator and MacDonald. How are these characters alike? How are they different? What are the traits of each?
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