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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, when discussing forgiveness, that very often when praying he finds that he has asked God not to forgive him, but for what?
(a) To punish others.
(b) To make life easier.
(c) To excuse him.
(d) To grant some wish.

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

3. According to "On Forgiveness", what part of forgiveness are we responsible for taking to God?
(a) Sin.
(b) Circumstances.
(c) Excuses.
(d) Prayer.

4. In his description of the inner ring, what does Lewis say happens when we get close to the ring?
(a) There isn't actually a ring at all.
(b) There is another ring inside it.
(c) We are accepted into the ring.
(d) We are no longer interested in the ring.

5. When discussing religion in private life, Lewis says that we live today in a society starved for all but which of the following?
(a) Religion.
(b) Solitude.
(c) Privacy.
(d) Silence.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Lewis in "On Forgiveness", excusing that which produces a really good excuse is not charity but what?

2. When discussing Christian solitude, Lewis says that Christians are called not to _____________ but to membership in the mystical body.

3. Lewis says that, when faced with the question of poetry in theology, he naturally turns to the believer he knows best. To whom does he refer?

4. In "Is Theology Poetry?" what mythological person does Lewis say has a far more heroic appeal than the Christian God?

5. In "Is Theology Poetry?" Lewis states that when you reach the New Testament truth is incarnate, and in this, "incarnate" is more than just what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What, according to Lewis's descriptions of the inner ring, does one discover when getting close to the ring?

2. Lewis says in "On Forgiveness" that there are two remedies for the danger of excusing ourselves from sin. Explain these two remedies.

3. Why, according to "Membership", is Christianity institutional in the earliest documents?

4. What, according to Lewis in "Is Theology Poetry?", do his examiners really intend to ask?

5. In the opening of "The Inner Ring", what does Lewis believe of the desire to be inside the inner ring?

6. How does Lewis respond, when discussing whether theology is merely poetry, to the idea that Christians believe their theology because they find it the most poetically appealing of their options?

7. In "Membership", why is the idea that religion should take place in solitude a dangerous one?

8. Explain the Creed, as discussed in "On Forgiveness".

9. What does Lewis say in his discussion of forgiveness is the hardest part about forgiving others?

10. When discussing the common idea that we are all equal in the sight of God, Lewis proposes what he admits may seem to be a paradox. Explain the paradox.

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