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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. Whom does the narrator realize is leading of the two ghosts who meet Sarah?
2. What happens to the Tragedian?
3. What phrase does the Tragedian repeat several times?
4. What does the Solid Man say that Pam is only using as a means to get to her son?
5. What did Frank torment Sarah with in their earthly life?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the Female Ghost tell the Bright Woman were her husband's faults?
2. What does the Tragedian do that makes the dwarf get smaller? What does Sarah say about this?
3. What is the appearance of the two ghosts whom Sarah encounters?
4. Who is the Bright Person who approaches the narrator? What is his appearance?
5. How did Pam neglect her husband and daughter in her life?
6. What happens when the ghost with the lizard allows the Bright Person to kill the lizard?
7. What analogy does the narrator conclude about the figures and the table in Chapter 14?
8. Why does the narrator begin to feel unsafe in this place after his encounter with the Hard-Bitten Ghost? What does he hide from?
9. Who does MacDonald say is the only Bright Person who can get into Hell? Why?
10. What does the narrator do when MacDonald offers to walk with him uphill? What is the sensation he speaks of?
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
Discuss the literary style of C. S. Lewis and the elements of style which are present in The Great Divorce. How do his choices of point of view, characterization, exposition, irony and foreshadowing affect the novel?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Lewis' use of irony in The Great Divorce. What are the three forms of irony? Give an example of each within the novel.
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