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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Is Theology Poetry?" Lewis states that when you reach the New Testament truth is incarnate, and in this, "incarnate" is more than just what?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Metaphor.

2. In his discussion of forgiveness, what does Lewis have to say about God and extenuating circumstances?
(a) He will not overlook them.
(b) He will overlook them.
(c) There are always extenuating circumstances.
(d) There is no such thing as extenuating circumstances.

3. In his discussion of sin, what does Lewis say constitutes real forgiveness?
(a) Making excuses for the sin.
(b) Looking steadily at the sin.
(c) Asking God to help with the sin.
(d) Ignoring the sin.

4. Lewis states in "Membership" that _____________ is a quantitative term and that therefore love knows nothing of it.
(a) Obedience.
(b) Humility.
(c) Personality.
(d) Equality.

5. When discussing religion in private life, Lewis says that we live today in a society starved for all but which of the following?
(a) Silence.
(b) Privacy.
(c) Religion.
(d) Solitude.

6. Lewis states when discussing theology that only a minority of world religions have a theology. What ancient culture does he use as an example?
(a) Roman.
(b) Mayan.
(c) Egyptian.
(d) Greek.

7. According to Lewis's description of a middle-aged moralist, such a person should warn juniors against all but which of the following?
(a) Flesh.
(b) The world.
(c) Temptation.
(d) The devil.

8. In his discussion of what it takes to be a member of the inner ring, Lewis says that the trial for the inner ring may end in all but which of the following ways?
(a) Disaster.
(b) Crash.
(c) Scandal.
(d) Servitude.

9. What famous work by Keats does Lewis say in "Is Theology Poetry?" is even better than ancient mythology?
(a) Endymion.
(b) Hymn to Apollo.
(c) Ode to Autumn.
(d) Hyperion.

10. Lewis says that, when faced with the question of poetry in theology, he naturally turns to the believer he knows best. To whom does he refer?
(a) God.
(b) Himself.
(c) His wife.
(d) His pastor.

11. In the opening of "Membership", Lewis says he believes it was one of the Wesleys who said that the New Testament knows nothing of what?
(a) Solitary religion.
(b) Institutions.
(c) Group religion.
(d) Assembly.

12. In "The Inner Ring", Lewis says that the hint toward a certain path will likely come just as one is anxious not to appear to be all but which of the following?
(a) Poor.
(b) Crude.
(c) Prig.
(d) Naive.

13. In "Is Theology Poetry?" what era of tragedy does Lewis describe as one where the protagonist's life is represented by a slowly rising and then quickly falling curve?
(a) Victorian.
(b) Biblical.
(c) Shakespearean.
(d) Elizabethan.

14. When discussing the meaning of poetry, Lewis says he feels sure the examiners were not asking if theologians are masters of all but which of the following styles?
(a) Passionate.
(b) Artistic.
(c) Sensuous.
(d) Simple.

15. Lewis says, when discussing the inner ring phenomenon, that we hope for tangible profit from every ring such as all but which of the following?
(a) Power.
(b) Love.
(c) Liberty.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Inner Ring", Lewis says that the quest for the ring will break what?

2. Lewis says in "Membership" that he does not believe God created what kind of world?

3. Lewis says, in "The Inner Ring", that in the next ten years his audience will be busy doing all but which of the following?

4. In his discussion of the inner ring, Lewis says that a person may tell themselves it is a hardship to do what?

5. According to "On Forgiveness", we believe that God forgives sin but that He will not do so unless what?

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