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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 are the guests surprised to learn?

2. As scene 5 opens, Lewis and Warnie are preparing for what?

3. Scene 6 opens at what?

4. What does Warnie suggest about women?

5. In what city does the play take place?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Lewis and Joy discuss before she leaves? What does he ask her? What does Joy ask of Lewis?

2. How do Lewis and Warnie feel about Joy's impending visit to their home? Why is she coming?

3. What does Lewis tell Douglas? What does Douglas ask?

4. Where does scene 1 open? Describe the location. Who is present as the scene opens?

5. What does Lewis do to help ease the tension between him and Joy? What do they discuss?

6. How are the vows recited in the scene? How does the scene keep the tenor of Lewis and Joy's relationship at this stage?

7. What letter does Lewis receive? What does the scene reveal about the sender?

8. What happens as Lewis goes to leave? What does this event signify?

9. Where does Scene 2 open? Who is present in the scene? What are they doing?

10. Why is everyone cautious in this scene? What are they afraid of?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What significance does the wardrobe have in the play? Where does this reference come from? Who interacts with the wardrobe? Why?

Essay Topic 2

In the first scene of the play, Lewis describes what is meant by "Shadowlands." What definition does he give to this term? Why do you think the play is titled by this? What meaning does the play give us for what the Shadowlands are?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Lewis and Joy's first wedding ceremony with the second ceremony. Who is present at each of the weddings? What conditions are different between the two? How do the participants feel about each of the weddings?

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