The Great Divorce Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 125 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Great Divorce Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 125 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 the Hard-Bitten Ghost say that rain would feel like if it were to fall?

2. What does the narrator come upon after walking for several hours in Chapter 6?

3. What does the Solid Man say he is here to be for the Big Man?

4. Whose job is it, according to the Hard-Bitten Ghost, to find something that doesn't "bore us"?

5. What has the narrator begun to walk upon in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Why does the Young Man tell the narrator he is going on the bus?

3. What is the narrator's experience walking on the grass? What does he envy?

4. Describe the bus and the bus driver.

5. What does the narrator want to do at the river? How does this work out?

6. Where has the Hard-Bitten Ghost been? What does he say of these places?

7. Why does the Conscientious Objector say he threw himself in front of a train?

8. How long does the narrator travel on the river? How far does he go?

9. How does the Hard-Bitten Ghost respond to the narrator's suggestion that they will grow more solid as they acclimate to Heaven?

10. What does the narrator try to pick up after getting off the bus?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the title of The Great Divorce. What did Lewis write the novel in response to? How does his opinion of the afterlife and the philosophies of sin differ from the noted text?

Essay Topic 2

How does the character of MacDonald serve the novel? What is the literary term that may be applied to him? What are his major characteristics? What does he represent symbolically?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Lewis' use of symbolism and motif in The Great Divorce. Define these terms and give examples in your discussion.

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