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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Progress.
(b) Reason.
(c) Life.
(d) Logic.

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

3. When discussing the idea of glory, Lewis says that it is perhaps crude but also accurate to describe glory as what?
(a) Being noticed by God.
(b) The ultimate sacrifice.
(c) An inner peace.
(d) A means to an end.

4. Lewis states in "Learning in War-time" that St. Paul tells people to do what?
(a) None of the answers is correct.
(b) Get on with their jobs.
(c) Live as best they can.
(d) Follow all the rules.

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

6. In "Transposition", Lewis says that if anyone watches the relationship between emotions and sensations he will discover all but which of the following?
(a) Nerves have fewer resources than emotion.
(b) Senses use one sensation to express multiple emotions.
(c) Nerves do respond to emotions.
(d) Emotion is separate and unconnected.

7. 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) Literature.
(b) Nature.
(c) Bible.
(d) Pastors.

8. Lewis states in his discussions of different virtues that the negative idea of unselfishness carries the primary suggestion of what?
(a) Reaching a truly enlightened state.
(b) Securing good for others.
(c) Being the right kind of person.
(d) Going without good things ourselves.

9. In "Why I am Not a Pacifist" Lewis says that nothing should be treated as intuition unless what?
(a) No good man has ever dreamed of doubting.
(b) The majority agree that it applies.
(c) It can be proven as scientific fact.
(d) The Bible specifically states it.

10. While discussing Pacifism, Lewis mentions that he believes only one world religion is truly Pacifist. To which religion does he refer?
(a) Buddhism.
(b) Unitarianism.
(c) Hinduism.
(d) Animism.

11. In the opening of "Transposition", Lewis says that which person seems to have been embarrassed by the phenomenon of speaking in tongues?
(a) Paul.
(b) John.
(c) Luke.
(d) Mark.

12. 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?
(a) Courage.
(b) Love.
(c) Humility.
(d) Unselfishness.

13. Lewis states that we are half-hearted creatures because, when offered infinite joy, we fool around with all but which of the following instead?
(a) Drink.
(b) Love.
(c) Sex.
(d) Ambition.

14. 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) The same things as before.
(b) Nothing the same as before.
(c) A large amount of charity.
(d) Hours worth of prayer.

15. 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) Spite.
(b) Superiority.
(c) Presumption.
(d) Flippancy.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Lewis in his discussion of Pacifism, what sort of society tolerates Pacifists?

2. What is the second Pacifist position ruled out by Lewis in "Why I am Not a Pacifist"?

3. In "Learning in War-time", Lewis quotes which author as saying "to offer to the author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie"?

4. In "The Weight of Glory", Lewis says it would be very odd if what people refer to as "falling in love" were to happen where?

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

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