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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what famous author does Lewis begin "The Inner Ring"?
(a) Tolstoi.
(b) Shelley.
(c) Bacon.
(d) Wordsworth.

2. Lewis says in "Membership" that he does not believe God created what kind of world?
(a) Democratic.
(b) Communist.
(c) Republican.
(d) Egalitarian.

3. "Membership" states that unity is the road to what?
(a) Personality.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Peace.

4. According to Lewis in "On Forgiveness", excusing that which produces a really good excuse is not charity but what?
(a) Foolishness.
(b) Unselfishness.
(c) Love.
(d) Fairness.

5. What professor does Lewis quote in "Is Theology Poetry?" as defending evolution simply because creationism is too incredible to believe?
(a) Watson.
(b) Darwin.
(c) Dawkins.
(d) Sagan.

6. According to "Is Theology Poetry?" why are fairies popular in England?
(a) They represent human virtues.
(b) We don't think they exist.
(c) We have substituted them for ancient mythology.
(d) They are a childlike delight.

7. 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) Simple.
(c) Artistic.
(d) Sensuous.

8. Lewis says, when discussing forgiveness, that very often when praying he finds that he has asked God not to forgive him, but for what?
(a) To grant some wish.
(b) To make life easier.
(c) To punish others.
(d) To excuse him.

9. Toward the end of "Membership", Lewis says that it is a pestilent notion that we each start with something called ____________ locked up inside us.
(a) Obedience.
(b) Humility.
(c) Equality.
(d) Personality.

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

11. When discussing forgiveness, from what does Lewis say a great deal of our anxiousness to make excuses for sin come?
(a) From not really believing in forgiveness.
(b) From being sure that God does not understand.
(c) From a paranoia that we are truly wrong.
(d) From the idea that we will always be sinners.

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

13. According to Lewis's discussion of forgiveness, what is the the same about us forgiving others and God forgiving us?
(a) Forgiving means excusing.
(b) Forgiving does not mean excusing.
(c) There is nothing the same.
(d) We don't have to forgive each other.

14. According to "On Forgiveness", it is a safe bet in regard to our own sins that the excuses are what?
(a) Better than we think.
(b) Not as good as we think.
(c) Sufficient for God.
(d) Completely irrelevant.

15. To which famous philosopher does Lewis refer at the end of "The Inner Ring"?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Augustine.
(c) Plato.
(d) Aristotle.

Short Answer Questions

1. In discussing the inner ring, to which psychologist does Lewis refer?

2. Lewis states when discussing theology that only a minority of world religions have a theology. What ancient culture does he use as an example?

3. In his discussion of fairies, Lewis says that belief in them would spoil the reading of what famous Shakespearean work for him?

4. According to "On Forgiveness", it is a safe bet in regard to the sins of others that the excuses are what?

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

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