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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Why I am Not a Pacifist.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Lewis in "Learning in War-time", if you don't read good books what will happen?
(a) It will make no difference.
(b) You will not understand current events.
(c) You will be uneducated.
(d) You will read bad ones.

2. What is Lewis's response when faced with those who claim the Christian life is a mercenary one?
(a) They are unintelligent.
(b) They are unbelievers and shouldn't be listened to.
(c) They are right.
(d) There are different kinds of rewards.

3. In "The Weight of Glory", Lewis says he feels as though he is trying to rip a secret from his audience that they commonly refer to as all but which of the following?
(a) Romanticism.
(b) Nostalgia.
(c) Innocence.
(d) Adolescence.

4. While talking about his war experience, Lewis refers to which of the following famous works?
(a) Henry V.
(b) The Sebastopol Sketches.
(c) The Iliad.
(d) The Art of War.

5. What, according to "Why I am Not a Pacifist", is the most useful analogy when figuring out right and wrong?
(a) Logic.
(b) Reason.
(c) Conscience.
(d) Precedent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first Pacifist position ruled out by Lewis in "Why I am Not a Pacifist"?

2. In the opening of "Learning in War-time", Lewis says that a university is a __________ for the pursuit of learning.

3. According to Lewis in "Learning in War-time", the true perspective on the calamity of war is what?

4. According to Lewis in his discussion of Pacifism, what sort of society tolerates Pacifists?

5. Lewis states in "Learning in War-time" that St. Paul tells people to do what?

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