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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While talking about duty during wartime, Lewis says that the rescue of drowning men is a duty worth dying for but not worth what?
(a) Risking war over.
(b) Losing money for.
(c) Living for.
(d) Encouraging.

2. In his discussion of fairies, Lewis says that belief in them would spoil the reading of what famous Shakespearean work for him?
(a) Macbeth.
(b) Much Ado about Nothing.
(c) Midsummer Night's Dream.
(d) Hamlet.

3. 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 read bad ones.
(c) It will make no difference.
(d) You will not understand current events.

4. Which of the following analogies does Lewis NOT use when talking about childlike humility?
(a) Creature before creator.
(b) Child before father.
(c) Lawyer before judge.
(d) Pupil before teacher.

5. Which author does Lewis quote in "Membership" as saying that to be happy at home is the end of all human endeavor?
(a) Byron.
(b) Wordsworth.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Keats.

Short Answer Questions

1. Though Lewis says in "On Forgiveness" that we should forgive someone who breaks a promise, he also says what?

2. In "On Forgiveness", Lewis says that in our own cases of sin we do what?

3. 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?

4. In the opening of "On Forgiveness", Lewis says what about believing in the forgiveness of sins?

5. According to Lewis's discussion of religion in private life, this phenomenon can be seen even where?

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