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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the attitude of Christianity towards self-love?
(a) It regards it as a minor sin.
(b) It seeks to destroy it.
(c) It emphasizes it up to a point.
(d) It regards it as a virtue.

2. Which of the following best states Lewis' opinion on a Christian political party?
(a) It would drive away moderates.
(b) It would be a liability to the church.
(c) It would be highly successful.
(d) It would be unstable.

3. How does Lewis regard scientific progress?
(a) It is always good.
(b) It is usually wrong.
(c) It is neutral.
(d) It is nearly always bad.

4. How many conditions were laid on in the original essay to which Lewis responds in Part IV, Letter 1, "The Conditions for a Just War"?
(a) Six.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

5. What is one reason Lewis gives in support of women serving as priests?
(a) They would attract a more liberal following.
(b) They tend to be compassionate.
(c) There is a shortage of priests.
(d) They are probably as capable as men.

6. What does Lewis believe that the world must place first in order to best understand itself?
(a) Reason.
(b) The transcendent.
(c) Logical thought.
(d) Religion.

7. According to Lewis, why can the church not treat people at "neuters", as does the state?
(a) It is a mystical body.
(b) Only women can create new life.
(c) Men have a special role in the bible.
(d) It deals directly with life and death.

8. In the response Lewis writes in Part IV, Letter 1, "The Conditions for a Just War", what does Lewis question about the theologians who originally wrote about the conditions for a just war?
(a) Their command of history.
(b) Their authority.
(c) Their educations.
(d) Their honesty.

9. In the title of the essay in Part II, Essay 12, "God in the Dock", the term "in the dock" refers to a condition in which what happens?
(a) A person passes judgement.
(b) A person is judged.
(c) A person receives a sentence.
(d) A person is absolved of a crime.

10. Lewis recommends that Christians regard rulers in what way?
(a) Obeying them completely.
(b) Treating them as God's representatives on Earth.
(c) Understanding that they are not always good.
(d) Disobeying them if they are not Christians.

11. Which of the following does Lewis NOT see as a major adversary for Christian philosophy?
(a) Marxism.
(b) Materialism.
(c) Spiritualism.
(d) Secularism.

12. Why does Lewis advocate reading older texts?
(a) Modern literature is abjectly bad.
(b) To prevent a bias.
(c) There is a large body of commentary on such books.
(d) In order to gain perspective.

13. The philosopher J.J.C. Smart distinguishes between whether an institution of moral rules is a good and idea and what?
(a) What is just.
(b) One's own moral beliefs.
(c) What is ordained by faith.
(d) Whether it can be implemented.

14. Lewis believes that sexual permissiveness will eventually result an a society unfriendly to what group?
(a) Married couples.
(b) Women.
(c) Children.
(d) The elderly.

15. Lewis states that language from what book needs the most explanation for an outsider to understand it?
(a) The old prayer book.
(b) The New Testament.
(c) The King James Version of the bible.
(d) The Old Testament.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lewis argues that observing things from the "inside" is which of the following?

2. What kinds of sins does Lewis believe are the most important to repent of?

3. Bulverism is essentially antithetical to what?

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

5. Lewis attributes most of the reduction in church attendance in England to what?

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