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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lewis says toward the end of "Transposition" that our natural experiences are like a drawing. He is referring to all but which of the following experiences?
(a) Imaginative.
(b) Emotional.
(c) Sensory.
(d) Social.

2. According to "Why I am Not a Pacifist", basic moral intuitions are the only element of ______________ that cannot be argued about.
(a) Precedent.
(b) Logic.
(c) Reason.
(d) Conscience.

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

4. In "The Weight of Glory", Lewis likens figuring out the Christian lifestyle to learning which language?
(a) Russian.
(b) German.
(c) Latin.
(d) Greek.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. While talking about his war experience, Lewis refers to which of the following famous works?

3. What sort of fanatic does Lewis describe in "Why I am Not a Pacifist" who has an unanswerable intuition that strong drink is wrong?

4. In "Why I am Not a Pacifist" Lewis says that were he to be a Pacifist, he would go against the writings of all but which of the following?

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?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Transposition", what points does Lewis make about the included quote from Pepys?

2. Sum up Lewis's final explanation for why he is not a Pacifist at the end of "Why I am Not a Pacifist".

3. When talking about the highest virtues, Lewis states that people today see unselfishness as the highest but that Christians of old thought love is the greatest. Lewis believes unselfishness to be a negative term while love is positive. Why does Lewis believe that unselfishness is negative?

4. Explain Lewis's statement in the discussion of war that a man may have to die for his country but that no man must live for his country.

5. At the conclusion of "The Weight of Glory", what does Lewis say should be our attitude toward the glory of others?

6. Discuss Lewis's example in "Why I am Not a Pacifist" of the supposed intuition of a temperance fanatic.

7. Why does Lewis say that religion cannot occupy the whole of life in "Learning in War-time"?

8. Explain the three enemies of scholars as discussed in "Learning in War-time".

9. Why, when discussing the concept of glory, does Lewis describe glory as being noticed by God?

10. Why, according to Lewis in "Learning in War-time", might some view continuing education as odd during a great war?

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