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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through On Forgiveness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Membership" says that the modern idea that religion belongs to our private life is all but which of the following?
(a) Natural.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) Paradoxical.
(d) Desirable.

2. In the opening of "Membership", Lewis says he believes it was one of the Wesleys who said that the New Testament knows nothing of what?
(a) Solitary religion.
(b) Assembly.
(c) Group religion.
(d) Institutions.

3. How does Lewis respond, when discussing war, to the fact that many individuals killed during a war are innocent?
(a) Makes war worse.
(b) Makes him a pacifist.
(c) Makes war better.
(d) Has no effect on his view.

4. When talking about forgiving each other, Lewis says that we must make every effort to eliminate all but which of the following desires from our hearts?
(a) Pay back the offender.
(b) Humiliate the offender.
(c) Ignore the offender.
(d) Hurt the offender.

5. While discussing pagan religion, Lewis states that the plot of the cosmic story involves all but which of the following themes?
(a) Life.
(b) Rebirth.
(c) Incarnation.
(d) Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Lewis's description of a middle-aged moralist, such a person should warn juniors against all but which of the following?

2. According to "On Forgiveness", we believe that God forgives sin but that He will not do so unless what?

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

4. When discussing forgiveness, from what does Lewis say a great deal of our anxiousness to make excuses for sin come?

5. When discussing the promises of scripture, Lewis states that they can be roughly reduced to how many topics?

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