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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In discussing war's effect on humanity, Lewis says that human life has always been lived where?
(a) Within an unsustainable model.
(b) Out in the open.
(c) On the edge of a precipice.
(d) Behind closed doors.

3. Lewis opens "Why I am Not a Pacifist" by saying military service can be all but which of the following?
(a) Wicked action.
(b) Morally obligatory.
(c) Unquestionably essential.
(d) Morally indifferent.

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

5. In his discussion of duty during war, Lewis says anyone who completely gives himself to a cause is giving to _______ that which belongs to God.
(a) Caesar.
(b) His nation.
(c) Himself.
(d) Satan.

6. 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?
(a) Minimizing approach.
(b) Literal interpretation.
(c) Pacifist approach.
(d) Exceptional cases.

7. In "Why I am Not a Pacifist", Lewis says he believes the art of life consists in tackling _______________ as well as we can.
(a) Suffering.
(b) World hunger.
(c) World war.
(d) Immediate evil.

8. 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) Cicero.
(b) Plato.
(c) Gandhi.
(d) Aristotle.

9. In his discussion of transposition, Lewis says that the lower medium can be understood only if what is also true?
(a) A higher medium exists.
(b) Not knowing the higher medium.
(c) Lower medium is studied.
(d) Knowing the higher medium.

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

11. 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?
(a) Panache.
(b) Éclat.
(c) Charisma.
(d) Zest.

12. Lewis believes, as stated in his discussion of transpositions, that the doctrine provides a background needed for which of the following virtues?
(a) Hope.
(b) Love.
(c) Peace.
(d) Unselfishness.

13. Lewis states that we are creatures who are every moment advancing toward either heaven or hell, and that we still spend time on all but which of the following trivialities?
(a) Art.
(b) Literature.
(c) Theology.
(d) Mathematics.

14. 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) Tolstoi.
(c) Bacon.
(d) Wordsworth.

15. In "The Weight of Glory", Lewis says he feels as though he is trying to rip a secret from his audience that they commonly refer to as all but which of the following?
(a) Innocence.
(b) Romanticism.
(c) Adolescence.
(d) Nostalgia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Why I am Not a Pacifist" Lewis says that nothing should be treated as intuition unless what?

3. While talking about his war experience, Lewis refers to which of the following famous works?

4. "Learning in War-time" says that all our activities will be accepted as long as what occurs?

5. In "Transposition", Lewis says that we are claiming to know that our desire for heaven was not merely a desire for all but which of the following?

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