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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. What emotion does Lewis say he feels when discussing the desire for heaven?
(a) Anger.
(b) Shyness.
(c) Impatience.
(d) Depression.

2. 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 is released from prison.
(c) He becomes angry with his mother for lying.
(d) The mother has to rethink her strategy.

3. Lewis describes, in "Why I am Not a Pacifist," a belief that human history is a unilinear movement from worse to better. What term does he use for this belief?
(a) Life.
(b) Progress.
(c) Logic.
(d) Reason.

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

5. What, according to "Why I am Not a Pacifist", is the most useful analogy when figuring out right and wrong?
(a) Reason.
(b) Logic.
(c) Conscience.
(d) Precedent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lewis gives the example of Pepys in his discussion of transposition, saying that Pepys experienced the same sensation from all but which of the following?

2. In his discussion of transposition, Lewis says that the word ____________ is not always sufficient to describe the relation between higher and lower mediums.

3. When discussing the perception that some activities are more worthy of God's attention than others, Lewis says Arnold first used the word "spiritual" to replace what German word?

4. Lewis states that we are half-hearted creatures because, when offered infinite joy, we fool around with all but which of the following instead?

5. Lewis states in "Learning in War-time" that St. Paul tells people to do what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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"?

3. Describe the two meanings of conscience as discussed in "Why I am Not a Pacifist".

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

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

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

7. 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.

8. Explain the five promises of Scripture as discussed in "The Weight of Glory".

9. In "Transposition", what points does Lewis make about the included quote from Pepys?

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

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