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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Why I am Not a Pacifist.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When discussing mental exercises to defend the scholar against war, what does Lewis give as the second enemy?
(a) Excitement.
(b) Love.
(c) Frustration.
(d) Fear.

2. Lewis states in "The Weight of Glory" that no one can enter heaven except as a child, and that ____________is obvious in any good child.
(a) Pleasure in being praised.
(b) Fear of the unknown.
(c) Desire to behave well.
(d) Curiosity about God.

3. Lewis states, while discussing what scripture promises of heaven, that any idea of Christ we can form now will be what?
(a) Symbolical.
(b) Wrong.
(c) Correct.
(d) Irrelevant.

4. Which of the following is NOT one of the analogies Lewis uses to explain the Christian journey in "The Weight of Glory"?
(a) Obedience transforms caution.
(b) Poetry replaces grammar.
(c) Longing transforms obedience.
(d) Gospel replaces law.

5. What is the first Pacifist position ruled out by Lewis in "Why I am Not a Pacifist"?
(a) War is evil.
(b) Wars do more harm than good.
(c) Killing of human beings is always wrong.
(d) It is too expensive to fight wars.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Learning in War-time", Lewis quotes which author as saying "to offer to the author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie"?

2. In "Why I am Not a Pacifist" Lewis says that were he to be a Pacifist, he would go against the writings of all but which of the following?

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

4. What is the third Pacifist position ruled out by Lewis in "Why I am Not a Pacifist"?

5. What sort of fanatic does Lewis describe in "Why I am Not a Pacifist" who has an unanswerable intuition that strong drink is wrong?

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