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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 first should matter.
(b) None of them makes any sense.
(c) None of them is well defined.
(d) Only the third is important.

2. When discussing the promises of scripture, Lewis states that they can be roughly reduced to how many topics?
(a) Seven.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Twelve.

3. As "Why I am Not a Pacifist" closes, Lewis says that we have learned that though the world is slow to forgive, it is what?
(a) Quick to anger.
(b) Quick to forget.
(c) Lacking in memory.
(d) Quick to remember.

4. In the opening of "Learning in War-time", Lewis says that a university is a __________ for the pursuit of learning.
(a) Organization.
(b) Society.
(c) Club.
(d) Institution.

5. What is the first Pacifist position ruled out by Lewis in "Why I am Not a Pacifist"?
(a) War is evil.
(b) Wars do more harm than good.
(c) Killing of human beings is always wrong.
(d) It is too expensive to fight wars.

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

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

8. According to Lewis in "Learning in War-time", if you don't read good books what will happen?
(a) You will be uneducated.
(b) It will make no difference.
(c) You will not understand current events.
(d) You will read bad ones.

9. 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) Adolescence.
(b) Nostalgia.
(c) Romanticism.
(d) Innocence.

10. How does Lewis respond, when discussing war, to the fact that many individuals killed during a war are innocent?
(a) Makes war better.
(b) Makes war worse.
(c) Has no effect on his view.
(d) Makes him a pacifist.

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

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

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. While talking about his war experience, Lewis refers to which of the following famous writers?
(a) Wordsworth.
(b) Tolstoi.
(c) Keats.
(d) Shelley.

15. In "Learning in War-time", Lewis says that the tendency of Christians to avoid mentioning heaven or hell is what?
(a) Wishful thinking.
(b) Spiritual prudery.
(c) Great wisdom.
(d) Foolish nonsense.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Transposition", Lewis says that we often feel as though the vision of God will destroy our nature and that this feeling underlies our use of all but which of these words?

2. What, according to "Transposition", is the relationship between the spiritual and the natural?

3. In refuting Pacifism, which Pope does Lewis say has rejected the Pacifist position?

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

5. What sort of fanatic does Lewis describe in "Why I am Not a Pacifist" who has an unanswerable intuition that strong drink is wrong?

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