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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 his discussion of the inner ring, Lewis says that a person may tell themselves it is a hardship to do what?
(a) Stay late at work.
(b) Be one of a few in charge.
(c) Go to a dinner party.
(d) Be a member of society.

2. To which famous philosopher does Lewis refer at the end of "The Inner Ring"?
(a) Augustine.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Plato.
(d) Socrates.

3. What professor does Lewis quote in "Is Theology Poetry?" as defending evolution simply because creationism is too incredible to believe?
(a) Watson.
(b) Dawkins.
(c) Sagan.
(d) Darwin.

4. "Membership" says that the modern idea that religion belongs to our private life is all but which of the following?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Natural.
(c) Paradoxical.
(d) Desirable.

5. To which poet does Lewis refer in "The Inner Ring"?
(a) Shelley.
(b) Bacon.
(c) Frost.
(d) Byron.

Short Answer Questions

1. When discussing the possible future of his audience, Lewis says that for nine out of ten of them the choice will come which could lead to what?

2. In "On Forgiveness", Lewis says that God must often think of excuses we do not and that upon death some may find what?

3. In his discussion of what it takes to be a member of the inner ring, Lewis says that the trial for the inner ring may end in all but which of the following ways?

4. In "Is Theology Poetry?" how does Lewis define theology?

5. In regard to poetry, Lewis says what in "Is Theology Poetry?" about the Old and New Testaments?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the Creed, as discussed in "On Forgiveness".

2. Why, according to "Is Theology Poetry?", do we not restate belief in a less poetical form free from metaphor and symbolism?

3. At the end of "Membership", Lewis says that he may have complicated a simple matter but that he was anxious to bring out what two points?

4. How does Lewis respond, when discussing whether theology is merely poetry, to the idea that Christians believe their theology because they find it the most poetically appealing of their options?

5. What, according to Lewis in "Is Theology Poetry?", do his examiners really intend to ask?

6. Lewis says in "On Forgiveness" that there are two remedies for the danger of excusing ourselves from sin. Explain these two remedies.

7. Why does Lewis refrain from calling inner rings evil in "The Inner Ring"?

8. In the opening of "The Inner Ring", what does Lewis believe of the desire to be inside the inner ring?

9. What does Lewis say in his discussion of forgiveness is the hardest part about forgiving others?

10. In "Membership", why is the idea that religion should take place in solitude a dangerous one?

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