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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Weight of Glory", Lewis likens figuring out the Christian lifestyle to learning which language?
(a) Russian.
(b) Latin.
(c) Greek.
(d) German.

2. Which of the following is NOT one of the analogies Lewis uses to explain the Christian journey in "The Weight of Glory"?
(a) Longing transforms obedience.
(b) Gospel replaces law.
(c) Poetry replaces grammar.
(d) Obedience transforms caution.

3. Lewis contends in his discussion of Pacifism that, rather than fanaticism, the best results are obtained by all but which of the following limited objectives?
(a) Prison reform.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Abolition of slave trade.
(d) World peace.

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

5. According to Lewis in "Learning in War-time", if you don't read good books what will happen?
(a) You will not understand current events.
(b) You will be uneducated.
(c) You will read bad ones.
(d) It will make no difference.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. While talking about duty during wartime, Lewis says that the rescue of drowning men is a duty worth dying for but not worth what?

3. Lewis states in "The Weight of Glory" that no one can enter heaven except as a child, and that ____________is obvious in any good child.

4. As "Why I am Not a Pacifist" closes, Lewis says that we have learned that though the world is slow to forgive, it is what?

5. What is Lewis's response when faced with those who claim the Christian life is a mercenary one?

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