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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While discussing the cynic's questions about religion, Lewis says that religious language and imagery contains nothing that has not been borrowed from what?
(a) Pastors.
(b) Bible.
(c) Nature.
(d) Literature.

2. 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) Wordsworth.
(d) Bacon.

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

4. When exploring analogies for the Christian life, Lewis finds that his chosen analogy breaks down where?
(a) The reward is so much greater.
(b) Any other good along the path is fallacious.
(c) It simply isn't a good comparison.
(d) It is embracing a false object.

5. Lewis comments, when discussing the appropriateness of scholarship during war, that our tendency to focus on things other than war is our nature rather than what?
(a) Zest.
(b) Panache.
(c) Charisma.
(d) Éclat.

Short Answer Questions

1. To which poet does Lewis refer when discussing the secret inside people in "The Weight of Glory"?

2. What, according to "Why I am Not a Pacifist", is the most useful analogy when figuring out right and wrong?

3. 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?

4. If asked about the greatest virtue, as discussed in "The Weight of Glory", Lewis says the great Christians of old would have responded with which answer?

5. What is Lewis's response when faced with those who claim the Christian life is a mercenary one?

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