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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 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.

2. In the description of the promises of scripture about heaven, Lewis says which of the following?
(a) Only the first should matter.
(b) None of them is well defined.
(c) None of them makes any sense.
(d) Only the third is important.

3. Lewis states when discussing theology that only a minority of world religions have a theology. What ancient culture does he use as an example?
(a) Egyptian.
(b) Mayan.
(c) Roman.
(d) Greek.

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

5. In "Why I am Not a Pacifist" Lewis says that nothing should be treated as intuition unless what?
(a) The Bible specifically states it.
(b) The majority agree that it applies.
(c) No good man has ever dreamed of doubting.
(d) It can be proven as scientific fact.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Why I am Not a Pacifist", what does Lewis say is the second of three possible ways to interpret the command to turn the other cheek?

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

4. In his discussion of right and wrong, Lewis says that any concrete train of reasoning involves all but which of the following elements?

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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