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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 MacDonald's first name?

2. What does Sarah call the Dwarf?

3. What does the Well-Dressed Ghost in the forest tell the Solid One following her?

4. Who are the young men and women on either side of Sarah, according to MacDonald?

5. Whom does the narrator realize is leading of the two ghosts who meet Sarah?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does MacDonald tell the narrator about the beautiful woman in the procession?

2. Who does MacDonald say is the only Bright Person who can get into Hell? Why?

3. Why does MacDonald tell the narrator that the ghosts choose not to take the bus to Heaven?

4. What does the Tragedian do that makes the dwarf get smaller? What does Sarah say about this?

5. What are the approaching lights the narrator sees in Chapter 12? What are they doing? What is the song like that he hears?

6. How did Pam neglect her husband and daughter in her life?

7. What does the narrator do when MacDonald offers to walk with him uphill? What is the sensation he speaks of?

8. What happens when the ghost with the lizard allows the Bright Person to kill the lizard?

9. What does the narrator see when things suddenly change in Chapter 14? What do the figures on the table do?

10. What is MacDonald's reply when the narrator asks him if all he has seen is false?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 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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