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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. Why, according to "Membership", has even the authority of man over beast been interfered with?
(a) It is not used anyway.
(b) The church no longer accepts it.
(c) God did not intend it.
(d) It is constantly abused.

2. 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 a member of society.
(c) Be one of a few in charge.
(d) Go to a dinner party.

3. According to "On Forgiveness", it is a safe bet in regard to our own sins that the excuses are what?
(a) Not as good as we think.
(b) Sufficient for God.
(c) Completely irrelevant.
(d) Better than we think.

4. Which author does Lewis quote in "Membership" as saying that to be happy at home is the end of all human endeavor?
(a) Wordsworth.
(b) Keats.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Byron.

5. In "Is Theology Poetry?" what era of tragedy does Lewis describe as one where the protagonist's life is represented by a slowly rising and then quickly falling curve?
(a) Shakespearean.
(b) Victorian.
(c) Elizabethan.
(d) Biblical.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Membership" states that humility is the road to what?

2. In "The Inner Ring", Lewis says that the quest for the ring will break what?

3. Though Lewis says in "On Forgiveness" that we should forgive someone who breaks a promise, he also says what?

4. In his discussion of sin, what does Lewis say constitutes real forgiveness?

5. While discussing mythology and religion, Lewis says that he likes all but which of the following mythologies better than Christianity?

Short Essay Questions

1. What, according to Lewis's descriptions of the inner ring, does one discover when getting close to the ring?

2. Why, according to "Membership", is Christianity institutional in the earliest documents?

3. What disadvantages does Lewis say in "Is Theology Poetry?" does Christianity have when faced with other doctrines?

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

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

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

7. Why, according to Lewis's discussion of forgiveness, is it so important for us to forgive those who sin against us?

8. When discussing the common idea that we are all equal in the sight of God, Lewis proposes what he admits may seem to be a paradox. Explain the paradox.

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

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

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