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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the response Lewis writes in Part IV, Letter 1, "The Conditions for a Just War", what does Lewis question about the theologians who originally wrote about the conditions for a just war?
(a) Their authority.
(b) Their command of history.
(c) Their educations.
(d) Their honesty.

2. What war do most of Lewis' countrymen believe their nation had a part in starting?
(a) The Falklands Island War.
(b) The Cold War.
(c) World War II.
(d) The Vietnam War.

3. Lewis states that the opinion that only experts should read old literature is very common in what field?
(a) Science.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Theology.
(d) Politics.

4. Which of the following is NOT one of the subjects that Lewis states that almost all political parties agree upon?
(a) Security.
(b) The balance of order and freedom.
(c) A living wage.
(d) Taxation.

5. What single factor does Lewis regard as being most important in the growth of Christianity?
(a) Charity.
(b) Suppressing rival Christian sects.
(c) Public interest.
(d) Conversion.

6. Lewis attributes most of the reduction in church attendance in England to what?
(a) Secular government.
(b) Materialism.
(c) The lack of a central authority for the Church of England.
(d) The lack of laws for compulsory attendance.

7. Lewis believes that Humanitarianism can lead to what outcome?
(a) Recidivism.
(b) Tyranny.
(c) More first-time offenders.
(d) Bureaucracy.

8. Lewis argues that the commercialism of Christmas is what?
(a) Excessive and idolatrous.
(b) Painful and involuntary.
(c) Not Christ-like in any respect.
(d) An affront to the church.

9. What philosopher does Lewis quote in Part IV, Letter 12, "Capital Punishment and Death Penalty"?
(a) Leibniz.
(b) Demosthenes.
(c) Trotsky.
(d) Aristotle.

10. In Part IV, Letter 4, "Mr. C.S. Lewis on Christianity", Lewis defends himself against an accusation that he is which of the following?
(a) A snake-oil salesman.
(b) A tyrant.
(c) An imbecile.
(d) A demagogue.

11. Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons Lewis gives for rejecting the concept of females serving as priests?
(a) It would threaten the unity of the church.
(b) It is too great a break from tradition.
(c) There is no scriptural basis for it.
(d) It would increase divisions with other churches.

12. Lewis disagrees with what common response to crime?
(a) Therapy.
(b) Hard labor.
(c) Incarceration.
(d) The death penalty.

13. The problems discussed in Part II, Essay 12, "God in the Dock" mainly stem from criticisms of Christianity from what quarter?
(a) Scientists.
(b) Philosophers.
(c) Unbelievers.
(d) Dissenting Christians.

14. Lewis credits the work of what famous thinker with causing rational people to be concerned mainly with why things are true, rather than whether or not they are true?
(a) Freud.
(b) Hume.
(c) Descartes
(d) Kant.

15. Who was the father of St John the Baptist?
(a) Simon of Galilee.
(b) Zacharias.
(c) Saul.
(d) Cyrus.

Short Answer Questions

1. In general, the efforts of figures from Nordic mythology would best be considered which of the following?

2. In the title of the essay in Part II, Essay 12, "God in the Dock", the term "in the dock" refers to a condition in which what happens?

3. How many conditions were laid on in the original essay to which Lewis responds in Part IV, Letter 1, "The Conditions for a Just War"?

4. Lewis argues that observing things from the "inside" is which of the following?

5. Bulverism is essentially antithetical to what?

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