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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. "Membership" states that unity is the road to what?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Personality.
(c) Peace.
(d) Pleasure.

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

3. In "The Inner Ring", Lewis says that the hint toward a certain path will likely come just as one is anxious not to appear to be all but which of the following?
(a) Prig.
(b) Poor.
(c) Naive.
(d) Crude.

4. In "Is Theology Poetry?" Lewis states that when you reach the New Testament truth is incarnate, and in this, "incarnate" is more than just what?
(a) Analogy.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Symbolism.

5. In his discussion of sin, what does Lewis say constitutes real forgiveness?
(a) Ignoring the sin.
(b) Asking God to help with the sin.
(c) Making excuses for the sin.
(d) Looking steadily at the sin.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his discussion of forgiveness, Lewis says that to be a Christian means to forgive what?

2. When discussing Christian solitude, Lewis says that Christians are called not to _____________ but to membership in the mystical body.

3. According to Lewis in "On Forgiveness", excusing that which produces a really good excuse is not charity but what?

4. 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?

5. Lewis states when discussing theology that only a minority of world religions have a theology. What ancient culture does he use as an example?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. In the discussion of the inner ring, what does Lewis say we hope to achieve by getting inside the ring?

7. In his discussion of the value of the human soul, Lewis has what to say about why God died for man?

8. When discussing religion versus science, Lewis quotes Professor D.M.S. Watson. What is Watson's view on evolution as opposed to creationism?

9. 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?

10. Why, in his discussion of forgiveness, does Lewis say he has come to agree that the section on forgiveness does need to be included in the Creed?

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