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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 does Pam say she'd be perfectly happy if she had?
2. What does MacDonald say that Heaven is?
3. What does Sarah call the Dwarf?
4. Who is the glorious woman being praised in Chapter 12?
5. MacDonald says that of the Saved, what happens to them is best described as the opposite of what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Pam's brother tell her about the love of God? How must she change in order to see her son?
2. Why does MacDonald tell the narrator that the ghosts choose not to take the bus to Heaven?
3. What does the narrator see when things suddenly change in Chapter 14? What do the figures on the table do?
4. What happens to the narrator when the morning arrives?
5. How did Pam neglect her husband and daughter in her life?
6. Why does the narrator begin to feel unsafe in this place after his encounter with the Hard-Bitten Ghost? What does he hide from?
7. What does the narrator do when MacDonald offers to walk with him uphill? What is the sensation he speaks of?
8. What do the two ghosts do when Sarah asks for forgiveness?
9. Why does the Female Ghost encountered by the narrator and MacDonald say she wouldn't stay in Heaven?
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 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?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
From what point of view is the novel written? In what tense is it written? Define the terms which apply to these forms as discussed in class. In what ways does a narrative written in this point of view allow the reader greater understanding of the characters?
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