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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. Why does Worldly Wiseman want Christian to meet the people he sends him to meet?
2. What does Christian think about Lucre Hill?
3. What does Christian call Heaven?
4. With what is Passion concerned?
5. Who meets Christian and Hopeful on the other side of the river?
Short Essay Questions
1. Whom do Christian and Hopeful meet after Christian leaves Vanity?
2. Who do Christian and Hopeful meet after they leave the shepherds? What does that person say to them?What is Christian’s response?
3. What does Hopeful say about his own life?
4. Where does Christian go from the valley in question 10 and what is bad about it?
5. What do the shepherds show Christian and Hopeful?
6. How does Christian meet Formalist and Hypocrisyand what happens to them and why?
7. What valley does Christian enter after he leaves the top of the mountain and what happens there?
8. Where does Christian meet Timorous and Mistrust and why is it nightfall before he gets to the top of the mountain?
9. Who is Christian and why does he leave his home?
10. What city do Christian and Faithful enter? What is there that happens all year?What happens to Faithful and Christian?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Some books embody character-driven plots while others are action driven. Still others seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:
1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven? Which of these styles do you think that The Pilgrim's Progress falls into?
2. In what ways does plot structure differ between works that are character driven versus action driven? How is this illustrated in The Pilgrim's Progress?
3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?
Essay Topic 2
The River of Death is a final test of religious faith. The river is easy to cross if one has faith in God and in one's own worthiness to enter Heaven. It is difficult for those full of doubt or worry. Christian is overcome with final doubts about his salvation, but Hopeful manages to save him. Like their time in the Doubting Castle, the two work together so that both can be saved.
1. Discuss the metaphor of the River of Death and why the author believes death is easier when a person has faith. Use examples from the novel to support your answer.
2. Discuss the irony of Christian losing faith at the last moment after all he had been through. What does this loss of faith say about Christian as a character?
3. What is demonstrated by the fact that Hopeful and Christian cooperate throughout their journey?
Essay Topic 3
The narrative style of a work of literature refers to the perspective from which the story is told. Answer and discuss the following:
1. Is the narrative in The Pilgrim's Progress related from a first, second, or third-person perspective? What are the advantages and the disadvantages of this narrative perspective?
2. Is the novel related in the present or past tense? Why is the tense of the narrative important in analyzing a work of literature?
3. Is the narrator of the novel a reliable one? Why or why not?
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