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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons Lewis gives for rejecting the concept of females serving as priests?
(a) It is too great a break from tradition.
(b) There is no scriptural basis for it.
(c) It would increase divisions with other churches.
(d) It would threaten the unity of the church.

2. What war do most of Lewis' countrymen believe their nation had a part in starting?
(a) The Falklands Island War.
(b) World War II.
(c) The Cold War.
(d) The Vietnam War.

3. Lewis believes that Humanitarianism can lead to what outcome?
(a) Bureaucracy.
(b) Tyranny.
(c) Recidivism.
(d) More first-time offenders.

4. Pittenger believes that Lewis' argument against naturalism is really a response to what kind of an argument?
(a) A false dilemma.
(b) Special pleading.
(c) A generalization.
(d) A strawman.

5. Lewis believes that faith cannot be based solely on which of the following?
(a) Introspection.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) A sense of the divine.
(d) Prayer.

Short Answer Questions

1. The philosopher that Lewis responds to in Part I, Essay 23, "Must Our Image of God Go?" holds what position?

2. Why, according to Lewis, are good and evil paired together?

3. 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?

4. Lewis admits that his earlier writing about the pain of animals was which of the following?

5. The content of Part I, Essay 20, "The Pains of Animals" is mostly concerned with what?

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