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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 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) Something that must be addressed.
(c) An inevitable situation.
(d) Not a new situation.

2. What, according to "Transposition", is the relationship between the spiritual and the natural?
(a) Spiritual is richer than natural.
(b) Natural is richer than spiritual.
(c) Spiritual relies on natural.
(d) Natural relies on spiritual.

3. According to Lewis in "Learning in War-time", if you don't read good books what will happen?
(a) You will not understand current events.
(b) It will make no difference.
(c) You will read bad ones.
(d) You will be uneducated.

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

5. If asked about the greatest virtue, as discussed in "The Weight of Glory", Lewis says the great Christians of old would have responded with which answer?
(a) Humility.
(b) Love.
(c) Unselfishness.
(d) Courage.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. To which poet does Lewis refer when discussing the secret inside people in "The Weight of Glory"?

3. While discussing Pacifism, Lewis mentions that he believes only one world religion is truly Pacifist. To which religion does he refer?

4. In "Learning in War-time", Lewis states that before he became a Christian he did not fully realize that life would consist of doing what?

5. According to "Why I am Not a Pacifist", basic moral intuitions are the only element of ______________ that cannot be argued about.

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. While discussing the relationship between emotion and sensation, what three points does Lewis make about the relationship?

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

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

8. 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?

9. 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"?

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

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