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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When discussing mental exercises to defend the scholar against war, what does Lewis give as the third enemy?
(a) Frustration.
(b) Excitement.
(c) Love.
(d) Fear.

2. In his discussion of right and wrong, Lewis says that any concrete train of reasoning involves all but which of the following elements?
(a) Arranging facts.
(b) Making decisions.
(c) Reception of facts.
(d) Self-evident truth.

3. When exploring analogies for the Christian life, Lewis finds that his chosen analogy breaks down where?
(a) It is embracing a false object.
(b) The reward is so much greater.
(c) It simply isn't a good comparison.
(d) Any other good along the path is fallacious.

4. Lewis states that we are half-hearted creatures because, when offered infinite joy, we fool around with all but which of the following instead?
(a) Drink.
(b) Ambition.
(c) Love.
(d) Sex.

5. According to Lewis in his discussion of Pacifism, what sort of society tolerates Pacifists?
(a) Conservative.
(b) Liberal.
(c) Religious.
(d) Anarchist.

6. What, according to "Transposition", is the relationship between the spiritual and the natural?
(a) Spiritual is richer than natural.
(b) Natural relies on spiritual.
(c) Spiritual relies on natural.
(d) Natural is richer than spiritual.

7. When discussing the perception that some activities are more worthy of God's attention than others, Lewis says Arnold first used the word "spiritual" to replace what German word?
(a) Heilig.
(b) Gemütlichkeit.
(c) Geistlich.
(d) Christlichkeit.

8. 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?
(a) Money.
(b) Social splendor.
(c) Jewelry.
(d) Longevity.

9. 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) Milton.
(b) Solomon.
(c) Aquinas.
(d) Johnson.

10. What sort of fanatic does Lewis describe in "Why I am Not a Pacifist" who has an unanswerable intuition that strong drink is wrong?
(a) Excess.
(b) Sobriety.
(c) Temperance.
(d) Control.

11. 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) Everyone spoke more about the war.
(d) Religion became more important.

12. Lewis states in "Learning in War-time" that St. Paul tells people to do what?
(a) Get on with their jobs.
(b) Follow all the rules.
(c) None of the answers is correct.
(d) Live as best they can.

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

14. Lewis states, while discussing what scripture promises of heaven, that any idea of Christ we can form now will be what?
(a) Symbolical.
(b) Wrong.
(c) Correct.
(d) Irrelevant.

15. In "The Weight of Glory", Lewis says nineteen out of twenty men today would respond that what is the highest of the virtues?
(a) Love.
(b) Courage.
(c) Humility.
(d) Unselfishness.

Short Answer 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?

2. 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.

3. Lewis says in "The Weight of Glory" that heaven is, by definition, what?

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

5. When discussing the promises of scripture, Lewis states that they can be roughly reduced to how many topics?

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