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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the discussion of how to respond to military service, Lewis states that the decision is generally made by what?
(a) Religion.
(b) Individuals.
(c) Conscience.
(d) Government.

2. Lewis says, when discussing the inner ring phenomenon, that we hope for tangible profit from every ring such as all but which of the following?
(a) Money.
(b) Liberty.
(c) Love.
(d) Power.

3. 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?
(a) Victorian.
(b) Biblical.
(c) Shakespearean.
(d) Elizabethan.

4. What is Lewis's response when faced with those who claim the Christian life is a mercenary one?
(a) They are unbelievers and shouldn't be listened to.
(b) There are different kinds of rewards.
(c) They are right.
(d) They are unintelligent.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Lewis says, in "The Inner Ring", that in the next ten years his audience will be busy doing all but which of the following?

2. Lewis states in his discussions of different virtues that the negative idea of unselfishness carries the primary suggestion of what?

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

4. Lewis says in "Transposition" that it may seem strange that an apocalypse can describe heaven with nothing more than all but which of the following?

5. In "Transposition", Lewis says that we often feel as though the vision of God will destroy our nature and that this feeling underlies our use of all but which of these words?

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