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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. According to "Learning in War-time", why does war fail to absorb our whole attention?
(a) It is too large to comprehend.
(b) People don't care.
(c) It occurs elsewhere.
(d) It is finite.

2. Lewis states that we are creatures who are every moment advancing toward either heaven or hell, and that we still spend time on all but which of the following trivialities?
(a) Theology.
(b) Art.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Literature.

3. 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?
(a) Music.
(b) Love.
(c) Food.
(d) Sickness.

4. "Learning in War-time" says that all our activities will be accepted as long as what occurs?
(a) The intention is good.
(b) They are allowed by the church.
(c) Prayers are said.
(d) They are offered to God.

5. While talking about his war experience, Lewis refers to which of the following famous works?
(a) The Iliad.
(b) The Sebastopol Sketches.
(c) The Art of War.
(d) Henry V.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Lewis quote in "Transposition" in his attempt to refute religious critics?

2. According to Lewis in his discussion of Pacifism, what sort of society tolerates Pacifists?

3. In refuting Pacifism, which Pope does Lewis say has rejected the Pacifist position?

4. While discussing the cynic's questions about religion, Lewis says that religious language and imagery contains nothing that has not been borrowed from what?

5. In "Learning in War-time", Lewis quotes which author as saying "to offer to the author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie"?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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"?

2. 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?

3. When talking about the highest virtues, Lewis states that people today see unselfishness as the highest but that Christians of old thought love is the greatest. Lewis believes unselfishness to be a negative term while love is positive. Why does Lewis believe that unselfishness is negative?

4. Explain Lewis's analogy of the woman who has a son while living in a dungeon. What point does Lewis intend to make with this fable, as discussed in "Transposition"?

5. Why does Lewis say that religion cannot occupy the whole of life in "Learning in War-time"?

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

7. 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"?

8. Lewis has a great deal to say about those who contend that the Christian life is mercenary in "The Weight of Glory". Discuss his response to this assertion.

9. In "Learning in War-time," what is Lewis's response to those who ask how we can be so selfish as to think of anything but war?

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

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