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 Wanderer"


1. The literary device present in lines 6-9 of “The Wanderer” is
A.    Caesura
B.   Imagery
C.     Alliteration
D.    Parody
E.    Understatement
 
2. The literary devices kenning, alliteration, and caesura classify “The Wanderer” as a poem from which literary period?
A.   Victorian period
B.     Anglo-Saxon period
C.     Realism
D.   Romantic period
E.     The Enlightenment
 
3. A theme present in the poem is
A.    Courtly love
B.     Family
C.     Politics
D.    Isolation
E.     Heroism
 
4.  “The Measurer” in line 2 of “The Wanderer” refers to
A.    A Greek god
B.     The Christian God
C.     The land’s ruler
D.    A sailor
E.     "The earth-stepper”
 
5. In “The Wanderer”, all of the following refer to the protagonist except
A.    "Lone-dweller”
B.     “The friendless man”
C.     The earth-stepper”
D.    Claimed by the “exile-track”
E.     “Shaper of men”
 
Answer Key: A, B, D, B, E

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