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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. Who asks the bus driver when they have to be back?
2. What does the Episcopal Ghost say that happiness lies in the path of?
3. Where did the Tousle-Headed Poet want to go, but couldn't because of financial troubles?
4. Who does the Hard-Bitten Ghost say that both sides in all the wars were run by?
5. What is different about the people approaching from the mountain than the passengers on the bus?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is remarkable about the other passengers once they are off the bus?
2. What does the narrator want to do at the river? How does this work out?
3. Why does the man in the bowler hat tell the narrator the gray town seemed so desolate?
4. What does the man in the bowler hat believe would make the people in the gray town satisfied?
5. Where has the Hard-Bitten Ghost been? What does he say of these places?
6. What did the two chaps find when they set out to look for Napoleon?
7. Describe the setting in which the narrator finds himself in at the beginning of the book.
8. How does the Big Man feel about his indiscretions being disclosed? What does he do?
9. 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?
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 setting in The Great Divorce. Is this setting realistic? Describe the qualities of the gray town, the bus, and the foothills. How are they different?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the use of imagery in The Great Divorce. In your answer, define the terms simile and metaphor. Give examples of each.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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