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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Inner Ring.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lewis says in "The Weight of Glory" that heaven is, by definition, what?
(a) The opposite of hell.
(b) What we hope to attain.
(c) Outside our experience.
(d) A mythical place.

2. 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) Reason.
(c) Logic.
(d) Life.

3. To which poet does Lewis refer in "The Inner Ring"?
(a) Shelley.
(b) Byron.
(c) Frost.
(d) Bacon.

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

5. In discussing war's effect on humanity, Lewis says that human life has always been lived where?
(a) Behind closed doors.
(b) On the edge of a precipice.
(c) Out in the open.
(d) Within an unsustainable model.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Is Theology Poetry?" what mythological person does Lewis say has a far more heroic appeal than the Christian God?

2. "Learning in War-time" says that all our activities will be accepted as long as what occurs?

3. In the opening of "The Inner Ring", Lewis says that he will not attempt to talk about what?

4. In "Is Theology Poetry?" what era of tragedy does Lewis describe as one where the protagonist's life is represented by a slowly rising and then quickly falling curve?

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

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