Combo With “combo With “the Great Divorce Study – Flashcards
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Queue
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A file or line of people
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Vitiated
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To impair the quality of or weaken
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Bourgeois
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Member of the middle class
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Innocuous
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Harmless, not interesting
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Vituperation
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Verbal abuse, condemnation
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Jocund
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Cheerful, glad
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Mirth
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Amusement or laughter
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Entreated
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To ask for earnestly
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Gaiters
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Ankle high shoe with elastic sides
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Apostate
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A person who forsakes his religion
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Bishopric
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The office of a bishop
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Libel
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To misrepresent damagingly
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Inquisition
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Harsh or difficult questioning; investigation
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Episcopal
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governing order of bishops
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reconnoitered
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To inspect the enemy's position
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Writhe
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To twist the body about, to shrink mentally, pain or disorder.
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Vie Dolorosa
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Walks of Sorrow
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Cheroot
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A cigar having open ends
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Cataract
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A descent of water over a steep surface
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Expedient
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Proper under the circumstances
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Miragean
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Optical phenomenon without substance or reality
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Garrulous
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excessively talking in a roundabout manner, wordy
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Incurious
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Not curious, lacking care or attention
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Lathe
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A river in hell who causes forgetfulness
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Monomaniac
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obsessive zeal in a single thing
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Astringent
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Stern or severe
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Tyrannous
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Unjustly cruel, harsh or sever
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Penumbra
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A shadowy marginal or indefinite area
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the first stop for all souls who die.
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Grey Town
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This place can also be called the Valley of the Shadow of Death
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Grey Town
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This book is about the divorce between...
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heaven and hell
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is smaller than one pebble of Earth. It was smaller than one atom of the real world. If swallowed by a butterfly in the real world, it would not be big enough to do any harm or have any taste to the butterfly.
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hell
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Large space, bright, light, grass, trees, hard like a diamond, larks singing, a wide river; mountains could be seen in the distance.
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heaven
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This was known as the Valley of the Shadow of Life, or the first level of...
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heaven
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if heaven is chosen, this will be seen as purgatory
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hell
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What happened to the appearance of the passengers who got off the bus?
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transparent
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what are the two types of people in the world?
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people who say to God "Thy will be done" and those who God says to them "They will be done"
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A damned soul is nearly ________. It is shrunk, shut up in itself, unable to receive good. At first they won't receive, in the end they can't open their hands for gifts, or their mouths for food, or their eyes to see.
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nothing
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Only________ can make Himself small enough to enter Hell.
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God
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When the soul goes to the fountain and drinks from its waters, he will forget all_____________ in their own works. They will enjoy their work as if they were someone else's, without pride and modesty.
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proprietorship
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Those who return to the Grey Town after visiting the Valley of the Shadow of Life may call the Grey Town...
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hell
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were bright; their feet sank into the wet turf. Some were naked, some were robbed. But the naked ones didn't seem less adorned, and robes didn't disguise in those who wore them the grandeur of muscle and radiant smoothness of flesh. Some were bearded, but no one in the company struck me as being of any particular age.
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spirits or solid people
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Once souls get off the bus, they become transparent because everything is real
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true
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true/false: The Artist was invited to go with his Bright Spirit and concentrate on just seeing the country. Light itself was his first love; he loved paint only as a means of telling about life.
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true
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true/false: The damned have holidays; some go back to Earth to play tricks on poor draft women ye call mediums.
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true
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true/false: Pam wanted Robert and was upset that the Bright Spirit was keeping her away from him. She towered up like a dying candle, with a flame that snapped suddenly. A sour, dry smell lingered and there was no Ghost to be seen.
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false
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true/false: Every one of the Spirits has come down to meet a soul on the mere chance of saving some Ghost.
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true
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true/false: A good person's past begins to change so her forgiven sins and sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.
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true
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true/false: There is always room on the Bus that leaves the Gray town; anyone who wants a seat has one.
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true
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true/false: the Unicorns were sent to distract the grumbler from her complaints, so she could forget about herself, long enough to become solid.
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true
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true/false: Len explained that going to the mountains will be a joy but it will also be plenty of work
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true
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true/false: The lizard represented temptation. The ghost who carried it refused the flaming angel's requests because he thought he would die too.
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when you feel bad and want to do something to help
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action of pity
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manipulation using pity. making people feel sorry for you so you can get something
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passion of pity
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the soul who tried bringing golden apples back to the grey town.
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bowler hatted ghost
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told her husband Frank (also known as the dwarf) that he doesnt need her or her love to accept God. He could not believe this and shrinks down into hell
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Sarah Smith
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hates everything about his life and heaven. is convinced the everything is propaganda. causes the narrator to question the bright people and heaven
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the tall/hard-bitten ghost
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she is ashamed of how she looks as a ghost. didn't want her wealthy reputation to be destroyed. spirit tries to distract her long enough for her to become real. she needs to forget about her appearance
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well dressed women ghost
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spirit wants to kill his lizard. says no but then decides he doesnt need it. the lizard becomes a stallion the ghost becomes solid and rides deeper into heaven
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ghost with lizard
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is sent to help the big ghost. the big ghost was his boss and he killed his friend. had dreams of killing the big ghost. tries to tell him that even murderers can go to heaven if they wish
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Len
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was a colleague of the the episcopal ghost. they used to have great intellectual discussions together. tells the ghost he needs to become childlike because children want to know the answers.
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Dick
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Solid Person with a Scottish accent and ageless spirit. At some moment, he appeared to be an old weather-beaten man, one who may have been a shepherd. Such the man as tourists think simple because he is honest and neighbors think "deep" for the same reason.
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George MacDonald
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Bright woman sent to help her son's wife choose Heaven.
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Hilda
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Bright Spirit sent to meet and help his sister. He explained that her son Michael can't see her until she grows solid and she can't do that until she can choose to love God first.
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Reginald
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who Len was sent to. he was len's boss. len killed his friend. he needs to get rid of pride and feelings to go to heaven
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the big ghost
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This soul told the Spirit who came to help him, "I should require some assurances...I should want a guarantee that you're taking me to a place where I should find a wider sphere of usefulness and scope for the talents God has giving me - and an atmosphere of free inquiry.
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the episcopal ghost
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This soul explained to the She-Spirit that she sacrificed her whole life to her husband by nagging him to take on work in the other department. He wanted to write and she filled his writing desk with flower vases. She cured him of his silly idea of writing a book. She chased his friends away, and insisted he be friends with people she chose. She insisted that she be given a free hand to take charge of him again.
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Roger's wife
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Narrator
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He eventually realizes he is dead and exploring heaven and hell and expressed much curiosity towards the after life and hell through observation of the other "Ghosts"
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The fat clean shaven Ghost
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Unwilling to abandon his intellect for his faith who meets Dick.
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the first stop for all soul who die
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Grey Town/Valley of the Shadow of Death
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the souls arrive at the Civic Center, 1,000 miles away from the ___ to take them to the Valley of the Shadow of Life
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Bus
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The Great Divorce is a book about the divorce between what?
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Heaven & Hell
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always in evening twilight, always rainy, only has a few shops, lodging houses are dingy looking, seems empty
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Grey Town
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smaller than a pebble on Earth, smaller that 1 atom of the Real World, if swallowed by a butterfly in Real World life, it would not be big enough to do any harm or have any tast
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Hell
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large, sky further off than usual, wide green plains, bright, light, grass and trees made of a substance as solid and hard as a diamond, larks singing, trees, grass, flowers, wide rivers, distant mountains, beautiful nature
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Valley of the Shadow of Life/first level of Heaven
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Who wrote the Great Divorce?
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C. S. Lewis
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"Earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in 1.___, and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of 2.___ itself."
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1. Hell 2. Heaven
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What happened to the appearance of the passengers who got off the bus?
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They became transparent
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2 kinds of people in the world: those who say to God, "Thy will be done" & those to whom God says, "Thy will be done"
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"Thy will be done"
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meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery, but it can become used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom by this
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pity
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only the Greatest of all can make himself small enough to enter ___. Only one has descended into ___.
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Hell
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"A ___ is nearly nothing. It is shrunk, shut up in itself."
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damned soul
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when a soul goes to the fountain and drinks from its waters he/she will forget all ___ and will enjoy their work just as if they were someone else, without pride or modesty
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proprietorship
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those who choose to return to the Grey Town after visiting the Valley of the Shadow of Life may call the Grey Town ___
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Hell
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Those who chose to stay in the Valley of the Shadow of Life may call the Grey Town ___
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Purgatory
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The ___ were bright. Their feet sank into the wet turf. Some were naked and some were robed. They helped the souls reach the mountains.
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spirits/solid people
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bright cheerful spirit who "murdered a soul in his heart" for years and now must ask forgiveness of that soul and be that soul's servant for as long as they need one
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Len
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naked and blindingly white spirit who asks the soul he is helping "Do you really think there are no sins of intellect? You have seen Hell: you are in sight of Heaven. Will you now, repent and believe? Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows"
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Dick
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spirit with a strong Scottish accent, old weather-beaten man, might have been a shepherd on Earth
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George MacDonald
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bright woman spirit sent to help her son's wife choose heaven
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Hilda
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bright spirit sent to help his sister; he explained that Michael cannot see her until she grows solid and she can't do that until she can choose to love God first, not just Michael
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Reginald
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soul that is upset that the spirit who came to meet him was a murderer and that he (a good person) is not put below the murderer
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The Big Ghost
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soul that wanted assurances that he will still be useful in Heaven
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The Episcopal Ghost
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soul that sacrificed her life for her husband, nagged and controlled him and changed everything about him to fit her liking
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Robert's wife
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soul that was only focused on survival on Earth, so the Valley of the Shadow of Life was no use to him because everyone there had already "survived" there and there was nothing for him to prove; had to become childlike to get into Heaven
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Sir Archibald
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soul that saw glimpses of Heaven on Earth and painted them, now had no reason to paint because they were all already in Heaven; had to give up paining to become solid
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The Artist
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true or false: The Big Ghost was asked to go to the Land of Eternal fact where he could see the Father of all other fact-hood; a land of not questions but of answers where he would see the face of God
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false
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true or false: Heaven is a state of mind
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false
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true or false: Hell is a state of mind
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true or false: damned souls have holidays when they go back to Earth and haunt people
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true
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true or false: if a soul leaves the Grey Town behind it will not have been Hell; to any that leaves, it is Purgatory
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true
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true or false: since the Solid People are so full of love, they will go down into Hell to rescue the Ghosts
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false
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true or false: the teacher told the narrator, the only character that has not died, that he could not fully understand the relations of choice and time until he is beyond both
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true
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true or false: every one of the Bright Spirits has interrupted his/her journey into deepest Heaven to come down to meet a soul on the mere chance of saving some Ghost
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true
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true or false: Pam wanted Robert and was upset that the Bright Spirit was keeping her from him; she snapped like a dying candle
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false
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true or false: the mother soul promised to do whatever was necessary to see her son; she treated God only as a means to Michael
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true
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true or false: all the souls who get off the bus went to deep Heaven
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false
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true or false: the Great Divorce was written in 1846
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false
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true or false: once the Ghost gave permission to the Flaming Angel to kill the lizard, they were both transformed; the ghost became an immense man and the dead lizard became a great silvery white stallion with a gold mane and tail; they rode into Heaven together
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true
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true or false: the Dwarf & Tragedian expected the Lady to have spent her time in Heaven alone & heart-broken because she died before Frank
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true
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true or false: in Heaven, joy can be shaken; darkness can swallow up the light; love and joy will always be at the mercy of frowns and sighs
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false
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true or false: the Ghost with the lizard was the only one in the story to accept Heaven and make it to the mountains
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true
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true or false: love on Earth is craving to be loved; in Heaven one can be filled with God's love to a point of overflowing with love that is never a needy kind of love
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true
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true or false: when the bus travels to the Land of the Valley of the Shadow of Life, it comes up through a small crack in the base of Heaven; once it is inside, all who were inside increase in size
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true
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true or false: a good person's past begins to change so their sins are forgiven and remembered sorrows take on a quality of Heaven; a bad person's past is filled only with dreariness
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true
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true or false: the last horror is to feel shame
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false
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true or false: the last horror is to be afraid of oneself
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true
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true or false: the people who the narrator met and observed in the Grey Town were all kind and friendly
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false
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true or false: there is always room on the bus that leaves the Grey Town; any would who chooses to get on the bus will find a seat
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true
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true or false: the unicorns were sent to distract the grumbler from her complaints so she could forget about herself long enough to become solid
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false
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true or false: once the souls got off the bus, they became transparent because everything around them was solid and real and they were not
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true
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true or false: in the Grey Town, everything is an illusion/state of mind
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true
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spirit that met the Ghost and lizard and offered to make the lizard quiet by killing it but needed the soul's permission
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Flaming Angel
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spirit that said "I am in love...I am full now, not empty. I am strong, not weak. You shall be the same. Come and see we shall have no need for one another now; we can begin to love truly"
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Sarah Smith
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soul that tried to bring the golden apples back to the Grey Town
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The Bowler-hatted Ghost
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soul who was told she needed to love someone else besides Michael. Her merely instinctive love for her child needs to turn into something better
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Pam
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Other names for applies to the Grey Town and What they mean
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Hell--if one chooses to reject Heaven, they go back to the Grey Town and are in Hell and have always been in Hell Purgatory--if one chooses Heaven and not to go back to the Grey Town, it will have been Purgatory, not Hell Shadow of the Valley of Death--when people die, the first place they go is the Grey Town
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Describe Heaven and Hell
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heaven is vast, beautiful, scenic, mountains, forests, river, solid, real, literal, colorful, bright, joyful, beings are solid, angels are huge, no room for misery, in love itself, full strong hell is a crack of heaven, dingy, long and mean streets, gloomy, state of mind, dreary, isolated, grim, ghosts only know how small and transparent they are when they go to the valley of the shadow of life, quarrelsome, miserable, weak, empty
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What are some of the characteristics the ghost have in common?
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They all believe they are self righteous, which causes them to be prideful leaving them blind at only seeing what people have done to them.
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What is the definition of an idol?
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An Idol is something we put higher than God, that we make the center of our life. Matthew 33:6 states "Seek first the kingdom of God..."
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What is the name of the narrators mentor?
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George Macdonald
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Setting of the novel?
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In hell, or purgatory to those who choose to accept Jesus. The base of the mountain before entering Heaven.
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Themes in the novel
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Death, final judgment, sin, self-righteousness.
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Mood of the first part of the novel?
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It is dark and dreary, everyone is fighting.
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Is this a real or imaginary place?
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It is an imaginary place.
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Does it follow the same laws as our world?
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No.
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what does CS Lewis call Matthew 33:6?
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The principle of first and second things. "Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in, aim at earth and you get nothing."
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What poem does Lewis draw from?
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The marriage of heaven and hell. By William Blake. This poem talks about how heaven and hell will be created as equals.
