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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Learning in War-time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to "Learning in War-time", why does war fail to absorb our whole attention?
(a) It occurs elsewhere.
(b) It is too large to comprehend.
(c) It is finite.
(d) People don't care.

2. To which poet does Lewis refer when discussing the secret inside people in "The Weight of Glory"?
(a) Wordsworth.
(b) Yeats.
(c) Shelley.
(d) Frost.

3. While talking about his experience in war, Lewis says he found what as he got closer to the front lines?
(a) Religion became less important.
(b) Everyone spoke less about the war.
(c) Religion became more important.
(d) Everyone spoke more about the war.

4. In "Learning in War-time", Lewis quotes which author as saying "to offer to the author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie"?
(a) Shelley.
(b) Tolstoi.
(c) Bacon.
(d) Wordsworth.

5. When discussing the promises of scripture, Lewis states that they can be roughly reduced to how many topics?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Seven.

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotion does Lewis say he feels when discussing the desire for heaven?

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

3. Lewis states, while discussing what scripture promises of heaven, that any idea of Christ we can form now will be what?

4. 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.

5. Lewis states that we are creatures who are every moment advancing toward either heaven or hell, and that we still spend time on all but which of the following trivialities?

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