(1)According to Lewis men used to think that love was the greatest virtue . (a)T
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(1)According to Lewis men used to think that love was the greatest virtue.
(a)True (b) False
(2) Today men consider self-denial to be the greatest virtue. Answer True False 0.15 points Save Answer Question 3 The Bible promotes self-denial as an end in and of itself. A (a)True (b)False
(4) According to Lewis we to deny ourselves in order that we may take up our cross and follow Christ. (a)True (b) False
(5) The following statement is significant: "Nearly every description of what we shall ultimately find if we do so contains an appeal to" what? (a) Love (b) Self-denial (c) Desire (d) All the above
(6) "It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak." (a)True (b)False
(7) Non-Christians will claim that when we desire rewards, we are being mercenary. It is as if it is "unspiritual" to want rewards. According to Lewis when does a reward become mercenary? (a) Rewards are ALWAYS mercenary (b) Rewards are NEVER mercenary (c) When the reward has no connection with the things you do to earn it.(d) None of the above
(8) The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in" what? (a) Consummation (b) Existentia (c) Abstentia (d) None of the above
(9) The third example of rewards involves learning Greek language and enjoying Greek poetry. What rewards does the student first try to achieve? (These rewards are mercenary.) (a) Good marks (b) Escape (c) punishment Please his parents (d) all the above
(10) Eventually the Greek student ultimately achieves the reward of enjoying the poetry itself. (a) True (b) False
(11) Did the Greek student know that he was going to get the second reward when he started learning Greek? (a)Yes (b) No
(12) According to Lewis the Christian is like which example? (a)love and money (b) war and generals (c)schoolboys and the study of Greek (d) None of the above
(13) Christians can be like schoolboys in that they can settle for the lesser rewards instead of for the greater rewards. (a) True (b)False
(14) This desire for heaven some call nostalgia or romanticism or adolescence (idealism). It is a secret we cannot tell and yet we cannot hide it because it is a desire for something that has never actually appeared in our experience. (a)True (b)False
(15) We can't hide it because our experience is constantly suggesting it. (a)True (b)False
(16) Our commonest expedient is to call it what and to behave as if it settled the matter? (a) Idealism (B)Beauty (c)Love (d)None of the above.
(17) Woodsworth identified this desire with certain moments in his past. How does Lewis respond to what Woodsworth says? (a) what he remembered would turn out to be false (b)what he remembered would turn out to be true (c) what he remembered would turn out to be itself a remembering (d) none of the above
(18) Is beauty located in books of music? (a)Yes (b)No
(19) "These things--the beauty, the memory of our own past--are good images of what we really" what? (a) fear (b) love (c) hate (d) none of the above
(20) "But if they are mistaken for the thing itself, they turn into dumb" what? (a) idols (b)people (c) ideas (d)all the above
(21) Lewis admits that he may be weaving a spell about us. What 2 kinds of spells are there in fairy tales and which spell is he weaving about us? (a) The spell of breaking enchantments and the spell of inducing enchantments (b)Spells do not exist (c) None of the above
(22)Lewis is trying to wake us from the evil enchantment of what which has been laid upon us for nearly a hundred years? (a) desire (b) worldliness (c) education (d) all the above
( 23) According to Lewis our whole education been trying to silence this shy, persistent, inner voice; almost all our modern philosophies have been devised to convince us that the good of man is to be found on this earth. (a)True (b) False
(24) Our modern philosophies tell us that the good of man is to be found in the future here on earth. (a) True (b)False
(25) Progress and Creative Evolution tell us that earth is our home. They try to persuade us that earth can be made into heaven." (a)True (b)False
(26) According to modern philosophers when will earth become heaven? (a)Soon (b)Never (c)Sometime in the future (d) None of the above
(27) According to modern philosophies even if we did attain to this heaven on earth, ultimately each generation would lose it at the time of death. (a)True (b)False
(28) No matter what modern philosophers do, they cannot get rid of this desire which no happiness on earth can satisfy. Simply because you have this desire for complete joy, is there any reason to suppose that we are going to receive ultimate fulfillment of that joy? (a)Yes (b)No
(29) Although we have never experienced this ultimate joy, this beauty, the Bible does give us an account of the object. What kind of account is it? (a) Literal(b) Symbolic (c)None of the above
(30) According to Lewis the scriptural account is important because it has authority. (a)True (b)False
(31) What is NOT one of the five heads of the promises in Scripture? (a) that we shall be with Christ (b) that we shall be like Him that we shall have "glory" (c)that we shall, in some sense, be fed or feasted or entertained (d) that we shall have some sort of official position in the universe ruling cities, judging angels, being pillars of God's temple.(e) None of the above .
Explanation / Answer
1. A
2.A
3.B
4.B
5.D
6.B
7.C
8.B
9.A
10.B
11.B
12.A
13.A
14.A
15B
16.A
17.C
18.B
19.B
20.C
21.A
22.C
23.A
24.B
25.A
26.A
27.A
28.A
29.B
30.A
31.D
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