About Clive Staples Lewis

Born in Belfast, Ireland on November 29, 1898, C.S. Lewis was already extremely imaginative as a child. He and his brother Warren created a fantastical world full of imaginary animals and tales of feats and heroism. After his mother passed away when he was 10, Lewis continued receiving an education before entering the English army during WWI, though he didn’t remain long in combat. He went to Oxford University and, after graduating from there, joined a “informal collective of writers and intellectuals who counted among their members Lewis’s brother, Warren Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien” (“C.S. Lewis Biography”). A Christian turned atheist, these meetings with literary greats and other intellectuals reinforced the Christian upbringing Lewis received as a child, and he began to expound upon Christian truths in his writing. He became a literary professor in 1954 at Cambridge University and worked there for nine years until his resignation and death soon after on November 24, 1963. His most famous works include Mere Christianity, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Screwtape Letters, as well as The Great Divorce and The Pilgrim’s Regress which contain Christian truths which he based off of his own Christian conversion and struggle for the faith.
("C.S. Lewis Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. Feb. 2013.
http://www.biography.com/people/cs-lewis-9380969page=2.)

Sunday, February 10, 2013

AP Multiple Choice Questions The Screwtape Letters


1. The following sentence is an example of which literary device?
            “When the patient is an adult recently reconverted to the Enemy’s party, like your man, this is best done by encouraging him to remember, or to think he remembers, the parrot-like nature of his prayers in childhood.”
A.    Imagery
B.     Satire
C.     Repetition
D.    Allusion
E.     Symbol
 
 2. The word “Enemy” is an allusion to:
A.    The Devil
B.     Adolf Hitler
C.     Jesus Christ
D.    The country’s leader
E.     Karl Marx
 
3. In this passage, the way to turn the patient from proper prayer is
I.       Keep the patient from praying altogether
II.    Misdirect his intentions
III. Persuade him that bodily position does not matter
A.    I only
B.     I and II
C.     I and III
D.    II and III
E.     I, II, and III
 
 4. C.S. Lewis implies through the style of this passage that he:
A.    Does not believe in prayer
B.     That the “prayer of silence” is for all Christians
C.     Christians should be feeling-centered when praying
D.    Prayer is a difficult task to master
E.    Christians are not easily manipulated by evil
 
5.  The point of view of this passage is:
A.    First person omniscient
B.     Second person
C.     Alternating person
D.    Third person
E.     First person limited
 
Answer Key: B, C, E, D, E


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