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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. In "The Weight of Glory", Lewis likens figuring out the Christian lifestyle to learning which language?
(a) Latin.
(b) Greek.
(c) German.
(d) Russian.

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

3. 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) Pastors.
(b) Nature.
(c) Literature.
(d) Bible.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Toward the end of "The Weight of Glory", Lewis says that our merriment must be of people who take each other seriously, which means with none of all but which?

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

4. Lewis says in "The Weight of Glory" that heaven is, by definition, what?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. At the conclusion of "The Weight of Glory", what does Lewis say should be our attitude toward the glory of others?

3. Discuss Lewis's statement in "Why I am Not a Pacifist" that pain and death are not the greatest evils.

4. In "Learning in War-time", what does Lewis say is the difference between humanity and insects?

5. Discuss Lewis's response in "The Weight of Glory" when talking about Wordsworth's definition of beauty in life.

6. Explain Lewis's statement in the discussion of war that a man may have to die for his country but that no man must live for his country.

7. Why, when discussing the concept of glory, does Lewis describe glory as being noticed by God?

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

9. 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?

10. What three ways does Lewis say there are to interpret the command to turn the other cheek, as discussed in "Why I am Not a Pacifist"?

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