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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When discussing how we should decide a question of morals, Lewis states that every moral judgment involves all but which of the following?
(a) Facts.
(b) Reasoning.
(c) Precedent.
(d) Intuition.

2. To which poet does Lewis refer when discussing the secret inside people in "The Weight of Glory"?
(a) Shelley.
(b) Yeats.
(c) Frost.
(d) Wordsworth.

3. When discussing the idea of glory, Lewis says that it is perhaps crude but also accurate to describe glory as what?
(a) Being noticed by God.
(b) An inner peace.
(c) A means to an end.
(d) The ultimate sacrifice.

4. 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) An inevitable situation.
(d) The culmination of our own stubborn behavior.

5. According to "Why I am Not a Pacifist", basic moral intuitions are the only element of ______________ that cannot be argued about.
(a) Precedent.
(b) Logic.
(c) Conscience.
(d) Reason.

6. According to Lewis in "Learning in War-time", why must good philosophy exist?
(a) It does not need to exist.
(b) It provides a reason to be religious.
(c) Bad philosophy must be answered.
(d) Humans need reason to understand things.

7. In "The Weight of Glory", Lewis says he thinks the idea that desiring good for ourselves and enjoying it is bad comes from which philosopher's thoughts?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Pascal.
(c) Aquinas.
(d) Kant.

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

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

10. Lewis gives the example of Pepys in his discussion of transposition, saying that Pepys experienced the same sensation from all but which of the following?
(a) Sickness.
(b) Love.
(c) Food.
(d) Music.

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

12. 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?
(a) World peace.
(b) Abolition of slave trade.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Prison reform.

13. While discussing the cynic's questions about religion, Lewis says that religious language and imagery contains nothing that has not been borrowed from what?
(a) Nature.
(b) Bible.
(c) Literature.
(d) Pastors.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the opening of "Transposition", Lewis says that which person seems to have been embarrassed by the phenomenon of speaking in tongues?

2. While discussing Pacifism, Lewis mentions that he believes only one world religion is truly Pacifist. To which religion does he refer?

3. 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?

4. In "Why I am Not a Pacifist", Lewis says he believes the art of life consists in tackling _______________ as well as we can.

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

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