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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Is Theology Poetry?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Why I am Not a Pacifist", what does Lewis say is the third of three possible ways to interpret the command to turn the other cheek?
(a) Literal interpretation.
(b) Minimizing approach.
(c) Pacifist approach.
(d) Exceptional cases.

2. Lewis contends in his discussion of Pacifism that, rather than fanaticism, the best results are obtained by all but which of the following limited objectives?
(a) Abolition of slave trade.
(b) Prison reform.
(c) World peace.
(d) Tuberculosis.

3. Which of the following groups does Lewis NOT mention as fanatical in "Why I am Not a Pacifist"?
(a) Freudians.
(b) Marxists.
(c) Leninists.
(d) Spiritualists.

4. Lewis says in "Transposition" that it may seem strange that an apocalypse can describe heaven with nothing more than all but which of the following?
(a) Crowns.
(b) Thrones.
(c) Music.
(d) Angels.

5. As "Why I am Not a Pacifist" closes, Lewis says that we have learned that though the world is slow to forgive, it is what?
(a) Quick to forget.
(b) Quick to remember.
(c) Lacking in memory.
(d) Quick to anger.

Short Answer Questions

1. While talking about his war experience, Lewis refers to which of the following famous writers?

2. According to Lewis in "Learning in War-time", the true perspective on the calamity of war is what?

3. When discussing mental exercises to defend the scholar against war, what does Lewis give as the first enemy?

4. In discussing war's effect on humanity, Lewis says that human life has always been lived where?

5. In "Transposition", Lewis says that we are claiming to know that our desire for heaven was not merely a desire for all but which of the following?

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