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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lewis regard as being essential to achieving the "freeborn mind"?
(a) Economic independence.
(b) Quality eduction.
(c) An official state religion.
(d) Spiritual harmony.

2. What is the primary importance of Christmas to Lewis?
(a) Keeping church practice modern.
(b) Maintaining tradition of the church.
(c) Demonstrating the dominance of Christianity.
(d) The mystery of the birth of Christ.

3. Overall, Lewis feels that vivisection should be treated in what way?
(a) It should be criticized.
(b) It should be free from criticism.
(c) It should be outlawed.
(d) It should be continued.

4. One theory about ethics and philosophy is that they grew out of what?
(a) Primate behaviors.
(b) The natural order.
(c) Early taboos.
(d) Religious dogma.

5. Lewis argues that observing things from the "outside-in" perspective is which of the following?
(a) Impossible.
(b) A gift of the spirit.
(c) Akin to meditation.
(d) Natural.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lewis believe about the birth of St. John the Baptist?

2. Which of the following is one of the difficulties in engaging the average Englishmen in a theological discussion?

3. Which of the following does Lewis NOT see as a major adversary for Christian philosophy?

4. What is Lewis' stance on compulsory religious activity?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Lewis believe that the Nazi emphasis on Nordic myth was absurd?

2. Explain one example of the problem with trying too hard to look at a problem "behind the scenes".

3. What problem does Lewis identify in the rules discussed in Part IV, Letter 1, "Conditions for a Just War"?

4. What is Lewis' opinion about Christian literature?

5. According to Lewis' writings in Part II, Essay 2, "Two Ways with the Self", what apparent contradiction exists in Christianity regarding self-love, and how is it resolved?

6. Why is Lewis opposed to giving all men a "right to happiness"?

7. How does Lewis feel about the Anglican church allowing Catholic-like invocation of the saints?

8. Why does Lewis believe that the decline of religion occurring at his time was less dramatic than it appeared?

9. Why does Lewis believe that an outside-in perspective is impossible to attain?

10. Why does Lewis believe that a therapeutic approach to crime will lead to tyranny?

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