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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In his discussion of the inner ring, Lewis says that a person may tell themselves it is a hardship to do what?
(a) Be a member of society.
(b) Go to a dinner party.
(c) Stay late at work.
(d) Be one of a few in charge.

2. "Membership" states that humility is the road to what?
(a) Pleasure.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Personality.
(d) Peace.

3. In "Is Theology Poetry?" Lewis says that Europe took a major interest in classical mythology during which periods?
(a) 12th to 17th centuries.
(b) 19th to 21st centuries.
(c) 4th to 9th centuries.
(d) 10th to 15th centuries.

4. In his discussion of forgiveness, what does Lewis have to say about God and extenuating circumstances?
(a) He will not overlook them.
(b) There is no such thing as extenuating circumstances.
(c) There are always extenuating circumstances.
(d) He will overlook them.

5. According to "On Forgiveness", it is a safe bet in regard to our own sins that the excuses are what?
(a) Better than we think.
(b) Sufficient for God.
(c) Not as good as we think.
(d) Completely irrelevant.

6. According to Lewis's discussion of forgiveness, what is the the same about us forgiving others and God forgiving us?
(a) There is nothing the same.
(b) We don't have to forgive each other.
(c) Forgiving does not mean excusing.
(d) Forgiving means excusing.

7. Lewis states in "Membership" that _____________ is a quantitative term and that therefore love knows nothing of it.
(a) Equality.
(b) Personality.
(c) Obedience.
(d) Humility.

8. When discussing forgiveness, from what does Lewis say a great deal of our anxiousness to make excuses for sin come?
(a) From the idea that we will always be sinners.
(b) From being sure that God does not understand.
(c) From a paranoia that we are truly wrong.
(d) From not really believing in forgiveness.

9. According to Lewis's discussion of religion in private life, this phenomenon can be seen even where?
(a) At university.
(b) In society.
(c) In church.
(d) In the workplace.

10. In "Is Theology Poetry?" what era of tragedy does Lewis describe as one where the protagonist's life is represented by a slowly rising and then quickly falling curve?
(a) Biblical.
(b) Victorian.
(c) Shakespearean.
(d) Elizabethan.

11. To which famous philosopher does Lewis refer at the end of "The Inner Ring"?
(a) Augustine.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Plato.

12. In "On Forgiveness", Lewis says that in our own cases of sin we do what?
(a) Accept excuses too easily.
(b) Ignore the need for an excuse.
(c) Don't accept excuses easily enough.
(d) Let God supply the excuse.

13. In "The Inner Ring", Lewis says what about the existence of inner rings?
(a) It is unavoidable.
(b) It is evil.
(c) It is good.
(d) It is avoidable.

14. In "The Inner Ring", what does Lewis say he thinks is one of the most dominant desires in human life?
(a) To bring others into the ring.
(b) To be inside the ring.
(c) To be outside the ring.
(d) To prove that the ring doesn't exist.

15. Why, according to "Membership", has even the authority of man over beast been interfered with?
(a) God did not intend it.
(b) The church no longer accepts it.
(c) It is constantly abused.
(d) It is not used anyway.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Inner Ring", Lewis says that the hint toward a certain path will likely come just as one is anxious not to appear to be all but which of the following?

2. Lewis says, when discussing the inner ring phenomenon, that we hope for tangible profit from every ring such as all but which of the following?

3. According to "On Forgiveness", it is a safe bet in regard to the sins of others that the excuses are what?

4. In regard to poetry, Lewis says what in "Is Theology Poetry?" about the Old and New Testaments?

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

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