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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Membership.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the second Pacifist position ruled out by Lewis in "Why I am Not a Pacifist"?
(a) War is evil.
(b) Killing of human beings is always wrong.
(c) It is too expensive to fight wars.
(d) Wars do more harm than good.

2. When discussing the meaning of poetry, Lewis says he feels sure the examiners were not asking if theologians are masters of all but which of the following styles?
(a) Passionate.
(b) Sensuous.
(c) Simple.
(d) Artistic.

3. Lewis describes, in "Why I am Not a Pacifist," a belief that human history is a unilinear movement from worse to better. What term does he use for this belief?
(a) Life.
(b) Reason.
(c) Progress.
(d) Logic.

4. In "Is Theology Poetry?" Lewis says that Europe took a major interest in classical mythology during which periods?
(a) 4th to 9th centuries.
(b) 12th to 17th centuries.
(c) 10th to 15th centuries.
(d) 19th to 21st centuries.

5. In "Why I am Not a Pacifist", what does Lewis say is the second of three possible ways to interpret the command to turn the other cheek?
(a) Pacifist approach.
(b) Literal interpretation.
(c) Exceptional cases.
(d) Minimizing approach.

Short Answer Questions

1. Toward the end of "Membership", Lewis says that it is a pestilent notion that we each start with something called ____________ locked up inside us.

2. Lewis states when discussing theology that only a minority of world religions have a theology. What ancient culture does he use as an example?

3. Lewis contends in his discussion of Pacifism that, rather than fanaticism, the best results are obtained by all but which of the following limited objectives?

4. Lewis states in "Membership" that _____________ is a quantitative term and that therefore love knows nothing of it.

5. "Membership" says that the modern idea that religion belongs to our private life is all but which of the following?

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