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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV, Letters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lewis contends that Corineous intends to treat Christianity in what way?
(a) As the only valid faith.
(b) As a provable fact.
(c) As only a myth.
(d) As an inferior religion.

2. Lewis states that sound value theories demand what of a definition of evil?
(a) It is syntactically identical to good.
(b) It is a perversion of good.
(c) It is the opposite of good.
(d) It is lacking everything that goodness has.

3. Lewis argues that favoring the indirect view is typical of what era?
(a) The classical era.
(b) The modern world.
(c) The enlightenment.
(d) The renaissance.

4. In Part II, Essay 16, "Cross-Examination", Lewis specifically denies that an experience of God can be brought on through what means?
(a) Religious ceremony.
(b) Prayer.
(c) Will and writing.
(d) Pretension.

5. Lewis admits that his earlier writing about the pain of animals was which of the following?
(a) Illogical.
(b) Crude.
(c) Unfinished.
(d) Speculative.

Short Answer Questions

1. The letter that Lewis passes on in Part IV, Letter 5, "A Village Experience" is from what kind of person?

2. What did the woman believe the vision she experienced in Part I, Essay 2, "Miracles" was?

3. Lewis believes that faith cannot be based solely on which of the following?

4. According to Lewis, why can the church not treat people at "neuters", as does the state?

5. Lewis credits the work of what famous thinker with causing rational people to be concerned mainly with why things are true, rather than whether or not they are true?

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