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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 the narrator fear would crush him into the earth in Chapter 8?
2. What is the table made of in Chapter 14?
3. What did the Female Ghost keep as a way to make her husband exercise?
4. What does the Solid Man say that Pam is only using as a means to get to her son?
5. How much was the Female Ghost's husband "pottering along" on when she met him?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does MacDonald tell the narrator about the beautiful woman in the procession?
2. What happens when the ghost with the lizard allows the Bright Person to kill the lizard?
3. Why does MacDonald tell the narrator that the ghosts choose not to take the bus to Heaven?
4. Who does MacDonald say is the only Bright Person who can get into Hell? Why?
5. How does the narrator feel after his encounter with the Hard-Bitten Ghost? Why?
6. Where does the Bright Person tell Pam her son Michael is? Why can't she see him now?
7. Why is the Well-Dressed Ghost fearful of going into the mountains with the Bright People?
8. What does the Female Ghost say about the flowers she put on Robert's desk?
9. What does Sarah do when the dwarf disappears?
10. Why does the narrator begin to feel unsafe in this place after his encounter with the Hard-Bitten Ghost? What does he hide from?
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 use of foreshadowing in The Great Divorce. What objects, people, or symbols are elements of foreshadowing that the author uses? How and when do these recur? Define the term in your answer.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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