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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which analogy does Lewis use when discussing the seeming pointlessness of continuing education during a war?
(a) Fiddling while Rome burns.
(b) Talking to a brick wall.
(c) A race against time.
(d) Not having enough sense to come in out of the rain.

2. In "The Weight of Glory", Lewis says nineteen out of twenty men today would respond that what is the highest of the virtues?
(a) Unselfishness.
(b) Love.
(c) Courage.
(d) Humility.

3. While discussing the cynic's questions about religion, Lewis says that religious language and imagery contains nothing that has not been borrowed from what?
(a) Nature.
(b) Bible.
(c) Literature.
(d) Pastors.

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

5. 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) Tolstoi.
(d) Wordsworth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lewis concludes "Is Theology Poetry?" by saying that Christian theology can fit into all but which of the following things?

2. According to Lewis in "Learning in War-time", the true perspective on the calamity of war is what?

3. In his discussion of transposition, Lewis says that the lower medium can be understood only if what is also true?

4. In his discussion of forgiveness, what does Lewis have to say about God and extenuating circumstances?

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?

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