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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Membership", Lewis cautions against mistaking necessary evils for what?
(a) Fate.
(b) Absolute evils.
(c) Justice.
(d) Good.

2. According to "On Forgiveness", it is a safe bet in regard to the sins of others that the excuses are what?
(a) Sufficient for God.
(b) Better than we think.
(c) Completely irrelevant.
(d) Not as good as we think.

3. What happens at the end of Lewis's analogy when the boy in the dungeon learns that there are no pencil marks in the outside world?
(a) He is released from prison.
(b) His notion of the world becomes blank.
(c) The mother has to rethink her strategy.
(d) He becomes angry with his mother for lying.

4. 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) Literature.
(b) Bible.
(c) Pastors.
(d) Nature.

5. When discussing the idea of glory, Lewis says that it is perhaps crude but also accurate to describe glory as what?
(a) A means to an end.
(b) The ultimate sacrifice.
(c) An inner peace.
(d) Being noticed by God.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "On Forgiveness", Lewis says that in the case of the sins of others we do what?

2. In "The Inner Ring", Lewis says that the quest for the ring will break what?

3. To which poet does Lewis refer in "The Inner Ring"?

4. According to Lewis in "On Forgiveness", excusing that which produces a really good excuse is not charity but what?

5. Lewis opens "Why I am Not a Pacifist" by saying military service can be all but which of the following?

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