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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 was Napoleon doing when the two men went to see him?

2. What has become almost unbearable for the narrator at the beginning of Chapter 3?

3. What does Dick ask the Episcopal Ghost to do?

4. What does the ghost leaning against the tree chew on?

5. What does the Tousle-Headed Poet rail against as a cause of much misery?

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. How does the narrator move two spaces in line after he joins in waiting?

3. What does the voice call out to Ikey with the golden apples? Where is the voice from? What does Ikey do?

4. Describe the setting in which the narrator finds himself in at the beginning of the book.

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

6. What does the place appear as when the narrator gets off the bus?

7. How does the Big Man feel about his indiscretions being disclosed? What does he do?

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

9. Where does the narrator sit on the bus? Who joins him? What does this character impart?

10. What does the narrator see coming down from the mountains to meet the ghosts? What is their appearance?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the themes of love and lust in The Great Divorce. How are "defective love" and "lust" compared? How does the author exemplify this through parable?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the use of foreshadowing in The Great Divorce. What objects, people, or symbols are elements of foreshadowing that the author uses? How and when do these recur? Define the term in your answer.

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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