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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Why I am Not a Pacifist.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If asked about the greatest virtue, as discussed in "The Weight of Glory", Lewis says the great Christians of old would have responded with which answer?
(a) Love.
(b) Courage.
(c) Humility.
(d) Unselfishness.

2. When exploring analogies for the Christian life, Lewis finds that his chosen analogy breaks down where?
(a) It is embracing a false object.
(b) It simply isn't a good comparison.
(c) Any other good along the path is fallacious.
(d) The reward is so much greater.

3. "Learning in War-time" says that all our activities will be accepted as long as what occurs?
(a) They are offered to God.
(b) The intention is good.
(c) Prayers are said.
(d) They are allowed by the church.

4. In "Why I am Not a Pacifist" Lewis says that nothing should be treated as intuition unless what?
(a) The majority agree that it applies.
(b) The Bible specifically states it.
(c) No good man has ever dreamed of doubting.
(d) It can be proven as scientific fact.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Lewis says in "The Weight of Glory" that heaven is, by definition, what?

2. 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?

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?

4. According to "Learning in War-time", why does war fail to absorb our whole attention?

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

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