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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 is Robert to the Ghost who insists on not seeing him?
2. What does the Female Ghost call the Solid Woman to whom she speaks of Robert?
3. What did the Female Ghost keep as a way to make her husband exercise?
4. What does the Well-Dressed Ghost say she would rather do than be seen?
5. Who says, "Can't you understand anything? Do you really suppose I'm going out there among all those people, like this?"
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens to the narrator when the morning arrives?
2. Who does MacDonald say is the only Bright Person who can get into Hell? Why?
3. Why does the Female Ghost change her mind about seeing Robert?
4. What does the narrator see when things suddenly change in Chapter 14? What do the figures on the table do?
5. What is the appearance of the two ghosts whom Sarah encounters?
6. How does MacDonald explain the size of Hell to the narrator?
7. What does the Tragedian do that makes the dwarf get smaller? What does Sarah say about this?
8. What does the narrator do when MacDonald offers to walk with him uphill? What is the sensation he speaks of?
9. What does Sarah do when the dwarf disappears?
10. Why does MacDonald tell the narrator that the ghosts choose not to take the bus to Heaven?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What literary allusions does C. S. Lewis make in the novel? What does this term mean? Which character specifically is an overt allusion? How?
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 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?
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