The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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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. 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) Tuberculosis.
(b) World peace.
(c) Prison reform.
(d) Abolition of slave trade.

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

3. Which of the following analogies does Lewis NOT use when talking about childlike humility?
(a) Lawyer before judge.
(b) Child before father.
(c) Creature before creator.
(d) Pupil before teacher.

4. While talking about his war experience, Lewis refers to which of the following famous writers?
(a) Keats.
(b) Wordsworth.
(c) Shelley.
(d) Tolstoi.

5. According to Lewis in "Learning in War-time", why must good philosophy exist?
(a) It provides a reason to be religious.
(b) It does not need to exist.
(c) Humans need reason to understand things.
(d) Bad philosophy must be answered.

Short Answer Questions

1. While talking about duty during wartime, Lewis says that the rescue of drowning men is a duty worth dying for but not worth what?

2. Lewis states in his discussions of different virtues that the negative idea of unselfishness carries the primary suggestion of what?

3. According to Lewis in "Learning in War-time", if you don't read good books what will happen?

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"?

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?

(see the answer key)

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