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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. Lewis equates meeting around the dinner table for conversation as which of the following?
2. Lewis cites which of the following groups from ancient times as illustrative of friendship and bonding having evolved as a result of necessity and unity?
3. According to Lewis, most people regard friendship as being which of the following in relation to all the kinds of love?
4. Spouses sharing duties in the home, according to Lewis, contributes to which of the following?
5. A young lady told Lewis that key evenings only occurred when two men were prevented from engaging in talk about a "subject." The author labeled the scenario that the young lady described as which of the following?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the author support his assertion that both single and married women seek ways to cross the barriers that keep them from establishing friendships with men?
2. How does the author, in the Eros section of his book, explain that love is more than just physical?
3. Describe the observations that the author makes in relation to the workplace playing an instrumental role in the formation of friendships between men and women.
4. What are the underlying traits of jealousy that author C.S. Lewis points out?
5. Describe the actual tasks that the author lists in connection with what Mrs. Fidget did for her family.
6. The author basically implies that despite promising to do so, human beings are not capable of establishing everlasting love, and provides support for his assertion. How does he accomplish that?
7. What does the author observe about the necessity of friendship?
8. What was it that the author listed that Mrs. Fidget did for her family?
9. What does the author say about the possibility of men and women forming and maintaining friendships?
10. What does the author note in relation to pitfalls associated with animals?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Based on the information that Lewis offers about charity in the last portion of his book, write an essay addressing your opinion on the following: Do you agree or disagree that it was possible that he published his message about Divine love and charity because he loved mankind and was practicing "charity" himself as he was writing the chapter focusing on it? Or is it possible that he was simply writing it to point out to those reading his book that human love, as we know it, basically is good only in moderation, but not worth pursuing with fervor because of its inherent, all-consuming, ever-present factor that could be hurtful to us?
Essay Topic 2
Since having read the chapter on charity, what type of attitude changes have you experienced, if any, with respect to love? Do you still perceive love to be the type that Lewis labels as natural, the type that is directed toward specific individuals only? Or are you now, following your reading of the chapter on charity, ready to abandon all of your former ideas about love and make charity your goal and quest? Write an essay focusing on the aforementioned questions.
Essay Topic 3
Somewhere along the way, as he explains the joy and pitfalls associated with love, does the author deliver an underlying message to love ourselves? Does he tend to direct us toward protection by guiding the reader toward charity? Does his exhibition of protection toward us (whom he did not know or meet) serve as an expression of his love and compassion for mankind, and ultimately serve as his expression of charity? Write an essay focusing your thoughts and writings on the message that you receive from Lewis' last chapter, and the aforementioned questions.
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