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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Lewis in "Learning in War-time", if you don't read good books what will happen?
(a) You will not understand current events.
(b) It will make no difference.
(c) You will be uneducated.
(d) You will read bad ones.

2. Lewis says that, when faced with the question of poetry in theology, he naturally turns to the believer he knows best. To whom does he refer?
(a) His wife.
(b) His pastor.
(c) Himself.
(d) God.

3. 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) Charisma.
(c) Panache.
(d) Éclat.

4. In "Learning in War-time", Lewis states that before he became a Christian he did not fully realize that life would consist of doing what?
(a) Nothing the same as before.
(b) A large amount of charity.
(c) Hours worth of prayer.
(d) The same things as before.

5. Toward the end of "The Weight of Glory", Lewis says that our merriment must be of people who take each other seriously, which means with none of all but which?
(a) Flippancy.
(b) Spite.
(c) Presumption.
(d) Superiority.

Short Answer Questions

1. When discussing mental exercises to defend the scholar against war, what does Lewis give as the first enemy?

2. Lewis states, when discussing intense aesthetic rapture, that if he tries to catch the feeling it produces, what happens?

3. In "The Weight of Glory", Lewis says he feels as though he is trying to rip a secret from his audience that they commonly refer to as all but which of the following?

4. In "Is Theology Poetry?" what mythological person does Lewis say has a far more heroic appeal than the Christian God?

5. 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.

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