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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 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) Logic.
(b) Progress.
(c) Life.
(d) Reason.

2. In "Learning in War-time", Lewis quotes which author as saying "to offer to the author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie"?
(a) Bacon.
(b) Wordsworth.
(c) Tolstoi.
(d) Shelley.

3. When discussing mental exercises to defend the scholar against war, what does Lewis give as the first enemy?
(a) Frustration.
(b) Excitement.
(c) Love.
(d) Fear.

4. In "Transposition", Lewis says that we often feel as though the vision of God will destroy our nature and that this feeling underlies our use of all but which of these words?
(a) Spiritual.
(b) Holy.
(c) Religious.
(d) Pure.

5. According to Lewis in his discussion of Pacifism, what sort of society tolerates Pacifists?
(a) Anarchist.
(b) Liberal.
(c) Religious.
(d) Conservative.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What emotion does Lewis say he feels when discussing the desire for heaven?

3. 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?

4. While talking about his experience in war, Lewis says he found what as he got closer to the front lines?

5. Lewis opens "Why I am Not a Pacifist" by saying military service can be all but which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. When comparing the Christian life to that of a schoolboy in "The Weight of Glory", why does Lewis say that the analogy eventually breaks down?

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

4. While discussing the relationship between emotion and sensation, what three points does Lewis make about the relationship?

5. Describe the two meanings of conscience as discussed in "Why I am Not a Pacifist".

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

7. Discuss Lewis's statement in "Why I am Not a Pacifist" that pain and death are not the greatest evils.

8. In "Learning in War-time," what is Lewis's response to those who ask how we can be so selfish as to think of anything but war?

9. Discuss Lewis's response in "The Weight of Glory" when talking about Wordsworth's definition of beauty in life.

10. At the end of "Transposition" Lewis says he has four points to add. What are they?

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