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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While talking about his war experience, Lewis refers to which of the following famous writers?
(a) Shelley.
(b) Tolstoi.
(c) Wordsworth.
(d) Keats.

2. In "The Inner Ring", what does Lewis say he thinks is one of the most dominant desires in human life?
(a) To bring others into the ring.
(b) To be inside the ring.
(c) To be outside the ring.
(d) To prove that the ring doesn't exist.

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

4. Lewis comments, when discussing the appropriateness of scholarship during war, that our tendency to focus on things other than war is our nature rather than what?
(a) Panache.
(b) Zest.
(c) Charisma.
(d) Éclat.

5. When discussing the promises of scripture, Lewis states that they can be roughly reduced to how many topics?
(a) Five.
(b) Seven.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why, in "Transposition", does Lewis say he wishes to discuss the phenomenon of speaking in tongues?

2. In his discussion of the inner ring, Lewis says that a person may tell themselves it is a hardship to do what?

3. Which author does Lewis quote in "Membership" as saying that to be happy at home is the end of all human endeavor?

4. Lewis gives the example of Pepys in his discussion of transposition, saying that Pepys experienced the same sensation from all but which of the following?

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

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