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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Is Theology Poetry?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Is Theology Poetry?" what era of tragedy does Lewis describe as one where the protagonist's life is represented by a slowly rising and then quickly falling curve?
(a) Elizabethan.
(b) Shakespearean.
(c) Victorian.
(d) Biblical.

2. 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) Reason.
(b) Logic.
(c) Life.
(d) Progress.

3. Lewis states that we are half-hearted creatures because, when offered infinite joy, we fool around with all but which of the following instead?
(a) Drink.
(b) Sex.
(c) Ambition.
(d) Love.

4. In "Learning in War-time", Lewis quotes which author as saying "to offer to the author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie"?
(a) Shelley.
(b) Bacon.
(c) Wordsworth.
(d) Tolstoi.

5. In "The Weight of Glory", Lewis says it would be very odd if what people refer to as "falling in love" were to happen where?
(a) In a sexless world.
(b) In Christianity.
(c) In hell.
(d) In heaven.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lewis states, when discussing intense aesthetic rapture, that if he tries to catch the feeling it produces, what happens?

2. What emotion does Lewis say he feels when discussing the desire for heaven?

3. What is the second Pacifist position ruled out by Lewis in "Why I am Not a Pacifist"?

4. While discussing mythology and religion, Lewis says that he likes all but which of the following mythologies better than Christianity?

5. In "The Weight of Glory", Lewis says he thinks the idea that desiring good for ourselves and enjoying it is bad comes from which philosopher's thoughts?

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