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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Is Theology Poetry?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To which poet does Lewis refer when discussing the secret inside people in "The Weight of Glory"?
(a) Shelley.
(b) Wordsworth.
(c) Yeats.
(d) Frost.

2. "Learning in War-time" says that all our activities will be accepted as long as what occurs?
(a) They are allowed by the church.
(b) Prayers are said.
(c) The intention is good.
(d) They are offered to God.

3. Lewis contends in his discussion of Pacifism that, rather than fanaticism, the best results are obtained by all but which of the following limited objectives?
(a) Abolition of slave trade.
(b) World peace.
(c) Prison reform.
(d) Tuberculosis.

4. In "Is Theology Poetry?" what mythological person does Lewis say has a far more heroic appeal than the Christian God?
(a) Odin.
(b) Anu.
(c) Jupiter.
(d) Zeus.

5. When discussing mental exercises to defend the scholar against war, what does Lewis give as the first enemy?
(a) Love.
(b) Fear.
(c) Excitement.
(d) Frustration.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to "Learning in War-time", why does war fail to absorb our whole attention?

2. In "Transposition", Lewis says that we often feel as though the vision of God will destroy our nature and that this feeling underlies our use of all but which of these words?

3. Lewis describes, in "Why I am Not a Pacifist," a belief that human history is a unilinear movement from worse to better. What term does he use for this belief?

4. Lewis states, when discussing intense aesthetic rapture, that if he tries to catch the feeling it produces, what happens?

5. When discussing the promises of scripture, Lewis states that they can be roughly reduced to how many topics?

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