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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. A Christian political party would lack which of the following?
(a) Membership.
(b) Poll numbers.
(c) Theological authority.
(d) Influence.

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

3. What concept must be warred against according to Christianity?
(a) The ego.
(b) Judgmentalism.
(c) Reason.
(d) Greed.

4. 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?
(a) Hume.
(b) Kant.
(c) Descartes
(d) Freud.

5. What core concept in Christianity does Lewis believe to be unfamiliar to most Englishmen?
(a) Sin.
(b) Free will.
(c) Judgment.
(d) Forgiveness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lewis argues that observing things from the "outside-in" perspective is which of the following?

2. Lewis suggests that Christians attempting to communicate with the outside world should use which of the following in their speaking and writing styles?

3. What causes previous translations of the bible to become worse?

4. Which of the following does Lewis specifically reject as a reason to allow women to be priests?

5. Lewis suggests that the Anglican church and what other denomination have a more commonalities than differences?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lewis reject the creation of a Christian political party?

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

3. According to Lewis, how do most modern people approach the subject of God, and how should the subject be approached?

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

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

6. What reasons does Lewis give for being uninterested in hymns?

7. What kind of compulsions does Lewis argue against?

8. 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?

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

10. What theological reasons does Lewis give to reject the idea of women serving as priests?

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