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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, according to "Why I am Not a Pacifist", is the most useful analogy when figuring out right and wrong?
(a) Reason.
(b) Logic.
(c) Conscience.
(d) Precedent.

2. Lewis says, in "The Inner Ring", that in the next ten years his audience will be busy doing all but which of the following?
(a) Acquiring facts.
(b) Bringing peace to Europe.
(c) Finding jobs.
(d) Getting married.

3. While talking about his experience in war, Lewis says he found what as he got closer to the front lines?
(a) Everyone spoke less about the war.
(b) Religion became more important.
(c) Religion became less important.
(d) Everyone spoke more about the war.

4. 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.
(a) Fear of the unknown.
(b) Curiosity about God.
(c) Pleasure in being praised.
(d) Desire to behave well.

5. While discussing Pacifism, Lewis mentions that he believes only one world religion is truly Pacifist. To which religion does he refer?
(a) Animism.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Hinduism.
(d) Unitarianism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lewis says toward the end of "Transposition" that our natural experiences are like a drawing. He is referring to all but which of the following experiences?

2. When discussing the perception that some activities are more worthy of God's attention than others, Lewis says Arnold first used the word "spiritual" to replace what German word?

3. 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?

4. When discussing how we should decide a question of morals, Lewis states that every moral judgment involves all but which of the following?

5. Toward the end of "The Weight of Glory", Lewis says that our merriment must be of people who take each other seriously, which means with none of all but which?

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