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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Inner Ring.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To which poet does Lewis refer in "The Inner Ring"?
(a) Shelley.
(b) Bacon.
(c) Byron.
(d) Frost.

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

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

4. Why, in "Transposition", does Lewis say he wishes to discuss the phenomenon of speaking in tongues?
(a) He has important insight to share.
(b) His audience requested it.
(c) It is a stumbling block for him.
(d) It is essential to understanding Pentecost.

5. While talking about his war experience, Lewis refers to which of the following famous works?
(a) The Iliad.
(b) Henry V.
(c) The Sebastopol Sketches.
(d) The Art of War.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lewis describes, in "Why I am Not a Pacifist," a belief that human history is a unilinear movement from worse to better. What term does he use for this belief?

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

3. In the description of the promises of scripture about heaven, Lewis says which of the following?

4. In his discussion of fairies, Lewis says that belief in them would spoil the reading of what famous Shakespearean work for him?

5. In refuting Pacifism, which Pope does Lewis say has rejected the Pacifist position?

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