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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. Lewis advocates therapy for criminal offenders of what type?
(a) Children.
(b) Former victims.
(c) The clinically insane.
(d) Repeat offenders.

2. What concept must be warred against according to Christianity?
(a) Reason.
(b) Judgmentalism.
(c) The ego.
(d) Greed.

3. What name does Lewis recommend for churches that believe in a high degree of supernatural intervention in the world?
(a) Modernist church.
(b) Deep-church.
(c) High-church.
(d) Reformed churches.

4. In the analogy that Lewis uses in Part II, Essay 6, "Meditation in a Toolshed", how can humans observe the "sun" directly?
(a) Through religious doctrine.
(b) Through divine inspiration.
(c) It is impossible.
(d) By setting aside prior commitments.

5. The letter that Lewis passes on in Part IV, Letter 5, "A Village Experience" is from what kind of person?
(a) A priest.
(b) A young man.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) An elderly woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lewis suggests that Christians attempting to communicate with the outside world should use which of the following in their speaking and writing styles?

2. What does Lewis believe about the story of Jesus turning water into wine?

3. In the analogy that Lewis uses in Part II, Essay 6, "Meditation in a Toolshed", observing the sun from the cracks of light in the roof of a toolshed is compared to what method of learning and knowing?

4. Why does Lewis advocate reading older texts?

5. Lewis fears that doctrinal issues will be settled with changes in what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lewis find it important for everyone to read older texts?

2. Why does Lewis reject the creation of a Christian political party?

3. According to Lewis, how do most modern people approach the subject of God, and how should the subject be approached?

4. Why does Lewis believe that an outside-in perspective is impossible to attain?

5. According to Lewis' writings in Part II, Essay 2, "Two Ways with the Self", what apparent contradiction exists in Christianity regarding self-love, and how is it resolved?

6. How does Lewis feel about the Anglican church allowing Catholic-like invocation of the saints?

7. What is the problem in the village described in Part IV, Letter 5, "A Village Experience"?

8. Why did Lewis believe that the Nazi emphasis on Nordic myth was absurd?

9. Why does Lewis believe that the decline of religion occurring at his time was less dramatic than it appeared?

10. Why does Lewis believe that a therapeutic approach to crime will lead to tyranny?

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