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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Learning in War-time", Lewis quotes which author as saying "to offer to the author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie"?
(a) Shelley.
(b) Bacon.
(c) Tolstoi.
(d) Wordsworth.

2. In "The Weight of Glory", Lewis states that he is shocked to find all but which of the following Christians taking heavenly glory quite literally?
(a) Solomon.
(b) Milton.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Aquinas.

3. While talking about his war experience, Lewis refers to which of the following famous works?
(a) The Iliad.
(b) The Art of War.
(c) The Sebastopol Sketches.
(d) Henry V.

4. 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?
(a) Social.
(b) Imaginative.
(c) Sensory.
(d) Emotional.

5. What happens at the end of Lewis's analogy when the boy in the dungeon learns that there are no pencil marks in the outside world?
(a) His notion of the world becomes blank.
(b) He is released from prison.
(c) The mother has to rethink her strategy.
(d) He becomes angry with his mother for lying.

6. Which of the following is NOT one of the analogies Lewis uses to explain the Christian journey in "The Weight of Glory"?
(a) Poetry replaces grammar.
(b) Gospel replaces law.
(c) Obedience transforms caution.
(d) Longing transforms obedience.

7. According to Lewis in "Learning in War-time", the true perspective on the calamity of war is what?
(a) Not a new situation.
(b) Something that must be addressed.
(c) The culmination of our own stubborn behavior.
(d) An inevitable situation.

8. In his discussion of transposition, Lewis says that the word ____________ is not always sufficient to describe the relation between higher and lower mediums.
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Semantics.
(d) Analogy.

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

10. Which analogy does Lewis use when discussing the seeming pointlessness of continuing education during a war?
(a) Not having enough sense to come in out of the rain.
(b) Talking to a brick wall.
(c) A race against time.
(d) Fiddling while Rome burns.

11. Which of the following groups does Lewis NOT mention as fanatical in "Why I am Not a Pacifist"?
(a) Spiritualists.
(b) Marxists.
(c) Leninists.
(d) Freudians.

12. In "Why I am Not a Pacifist" Lewis says that were he to be a Pacifist, he would go against the writings of all but which of the following?
(a) Plato.
(b) Gandhi.
(c) Cicero.
(d) Aristotle.

13. According to "Learning in War-time", why does war fail to absorb our whole attention?
(a) It occurs elsewhere.
(b) It is finite.
(c) It is too large to comprehend.
(d) People don't care.

14. When discussing heaven, Lewis states that he does not believe his desire for Paradise proves what?
(a) That God exists.
(b) That he will enjoy it.
(c) That it exists.
(d) That others cannot achieve it.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Lewis states, while discussing what scripture promises of heaven, that any idea of Christ we can form now will be what?

3. What is the first Pacifist position ruled out by Lewis in "Why I am Not a Pacifist"?

4. In "The Weight of Glory", Lewis says it would be very odd if what people refer to as "falling in love" were to happen where?

5. Lewis contends in his discussion of Pacifism that, rather than fanaticism, the best results are obtained by all but which of the following limited objectives?

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