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

2. Which of the following groups does Lewis NOT mention as fanatical in "Why I am Not a Pacifist"?
(a) Marxists.
(b) Freudians.
(c) Spiritualists.
(d) Leninists.

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) Love.
(b) Ambition.
(c) Drink.
(d) Sex.

4. According to "Why I am Not a Pacifist", basic moral intuitions are the only element of ______________ that cannot be argued about.
(a) Precedent.
(b) Conscience.
(c) Logic.
(d) Reason.

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) Tolstoi.
(b) Bacon.
(c) Shelley.
(d) Wordsworth.

Short Answer Questions

1. While talking about duty in wartime, Lewis says that God's claim on us is which of the following?

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

3. Which of the following analogies does Lewis NOT use when talking about childlike humility?

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

5. Lewis states in "Learning in War-time" that St. Paul tells people to do what?

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