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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 man on the bus say is lacking in the gray town?
2. What does the narrator see in the hawthorn bush?
3. From what point of view is the story told?
4. What does the narrator say is heavier than a sack of coal?
5. After exiting the bus, what does the narrator realize the other passengers are?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does the narrator sit on the bus? Who joins him? What does this character impart?
2. What does the man in the bowler hat believe would make the people in the gray town satisfied?
3. What is remarkable about the other passengers once they are off the bus?
4. How does the narrator move two spaces in line after he joins in waiting?
5. How does the Big Man reply when the solid person offers him help up the mountain? What does the solid person try to convince him of?
6. What did the two chaps find when they set out to look for Napoleon?
7. What does the solid person tell the Big Man about Jack?
8. What happens to the Short Man in the line next to the narrator?
9. What does the narrator do when he sees the bright light? What is the reaction and appearance of the other passengers?
10. What does the Hard-Bitten Ghost plan on doing? Why?
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 setting in The Great Divorce. Is this setting realistic? Describe the qualities of the gray town, the bus, and the foothills. How are they different?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the terms "Parable" and "Allegory." What characteristics does The Great Divorce share with these styles? Define the terms and cite examples of these characteristics from the text.
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