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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 Solid One tell the Well-Dressed Ghost he can't completely do?
2. What does the Solid Man tell Pam you can't fully love until you love God?
3. What in the song sung by the followers of Sarah cannot scare her in the night?
4. What does the Female Ghost consider controlling Robert to have been?
5. What does MacDonald tell the narrator to call this land?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do the two ghosts do when Sarah asks for forgiveness?
2. What happens to the narrator when the morning arrives?
3. Where does the Bright Person tell Pam her son Michael is? Why can't she see him now?
4. What is MacDonald's reply when the narrator asks him if all he has seen is false?
5. Why does the narrator begin to feel unsafe in this place after his encounter with the Hard-Bitten Ghost? What does he hide from?
6. What happens when the ghost with the lizard allows the Bright Person to kill the lizard?
7. How did Pam neglect her husband and daughter in her life?
8. What creatures appear when the Bright Person blows the horn? What is their appearance?
9. What does Pam's brother tell her about the love of God? How must she change in order to see her son?
10. How does MacDonald explain Heaven, Hell and Purgatory to the narrator?
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 narrator's actions and objectives in The Great Divorce. What changes does his character undergo? What does he represent symbolically?
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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