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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Intuition.
(c) Reasoning.
(d) Precedent.

3. In "The Weight of Glory", Lewis says it would be very odd if what people refer to as "falling in love" were to happen where?
(a) In hell.
(b) In heaven.
(c) In Christianity.
(d) In a sexless world.

4. What happens at the end of Lewis's analogy when the boy in the dungeon learns that there are no pencil marks in the outside world?
(a) His notion of the world becomes blank.
(b) He becomes angry with his mother for lying.
(c) The mother has to rethink her strategy.
(d) He is released from prison.

5. While talking about duty in wartime, Lewis says that God's claim on us is which of the following?
(a) Necessary.
(b) Infinite.
(c) Relentless.
(d) Absolute.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Why I am Not a Pacifist", what does Lewis say is the first of three possible ways to interpret the command to turn the other cheek?

2. In "Why I am Not a Pacifist" Lewis says that were he to be a Pacifist, he would go against the writings of all but which of the following?

3. What is Lewis's response when faced with those who claim the Christian life is a mercenary one?

4. Lewis says in "Transposition" that it may seem strange that an apocalypse can describe heaven with nothing more than all but which of the following?

5. When discussing the idea of glory, Lewis says that it is perhaps crude but also accurate to describe glory as what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why, in "Why I am Not a Pacifist", is Lewis unmoved by the fact that many of those who die during a war are innocent?

2. At the end of "Transposition" Lewis says he has four points to add. What are they?

3. According to Lewis in "Why I am Not a Pacifist", what is the main difference between reason and conscience?

4. Why does Lewis believe that the fact that war makes death real to us is a good thing, as discussed in "Learning in War-time"?

5. Why, according to Lewis in "Learning in War-time", might some view continuing education as odd during a great war?

6. In his discussion of heaven in "Transposition", Lewis says that often our negative interpretation of heaven outweighs the positive. What does he mean by this?

7. Explain the three enemies of scholars as discussed in "Learning in War-time".

8. Discuss Lewis's example in "Why I am Not a Pacifist" of the supposed intuition of a temperance fanatic.

9. Discuss Lewis's assertion in "Learning in War-time" that war creates no absolutely new situation.

10. Why, in "Transposition", does Lewis say that he is somewhat uncomfortable with glossolalia?

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