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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 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) He is released from prison.
(b) He becomes angry with his mother for lying.
(c) The mother has to rethink her strategy.
(d) His notion of the world becomes blank.

2. While talking about duty during wartime, Lewis says that the rescue of drowning men is a duty worth dying for but not worth what?
(a) Living for.
(b) Encouraging.
(c) Losing money for.
(d) Risking war over.

3. In refuting Pacifism, which Pope does Lewis say has rejected the Pacifist position?
(a) Benedict XV.
(b) John XXIII.
(c) Pius XII.
(d) John Paul I.

4. Lewis says in "The Weight of Glory" that heaven is, by definition, what?
(a) What we hope to attain.
(b) A mythical place.
(c) Outside our experience.
(d) The opposite of hell.

5. In the opening of "Learning in War-time", Lewis says that a university is a __________ for the pursuit of learning.
(a) Organization.
(b) Club.
(c) Society.
(d) Institution.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lewis says, when discussing transposition, that which of the following relationships is one of transposition?

2. According to Lewis in "Learning in War-time", if you don't read good books what will happen?

3. In the description of the promises of scripture about heaven, Lewis says which of the following?

4. In "The Weight of Glory", Lewis says nineteen out of twenty men today would respond that what is the highest of the virtues?

5. According to Lewis in "Learning in War-time", the true perspective on the calamity of war is what?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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.

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

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. 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?

5. 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.

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

7. Sum up Lewis's final explanation for why he is not a Pacifist at the end of "Why I am Not a Pacifist".

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

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

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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