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(1)Now when the NT describes salvation, it describes it in terms of glory “glory” suggests to Lewis (a) fame and glory (b) luminosity and wealth (c) fame and luminosity (d) none of the above. (2) The great Christian thinkers such as Milton, Johnson, and Aquinas think of heavenly glory as luminosity. (a)True (b) False (3) Is this fame conferred upon us by other fellow creatures or by God? (a)God (b)Other fellow creatures (4) Is this fame competitive? (a) Yes( b) No (5) What statement from Jesus makes up the divine accolade? (a) All is vanity (b) Well done thou good and faithful servant (c) Depart from Me you who commit iniquity (d) None of the above (6) Lewis has just said that affirmation is one of the 2 elements of glory in the NT. According to Lewis affirmation and humility go together. Part of humility is “the specific pleasure [desire] of the inferior. (a) the pleasure of a beast before men (b) a chidl before its father a pupil before his teacher (c) a creature before its Creator (d) all the above (7) The deadly thing about this pleasure is that it can turn into the deadly poison of what? (a) self-admiration (b) self-pity (c)self-denial (d) none of the above (8) Before this element of self-admiration kicked in, Lewis for one brief moment felt the pure joy of having pleased somebody he rightly loved and rightly feared. He hopes that in the future whenever he has been fully redeemed and fully changed that his soul has pleased Him whom she was created to please. (a)True (b) False (9) Perfect humility dispenses with modesty. (a)True (b)False (10) In other words, if God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with what? (a) With others (b) With itself (c) With nothing (d) None of the above (11) In the end each of us has to face the Face which is the delight or the terror of the universe. (a) True (b)False (12) We will all face one of 2 things whenever we see this Face. What are those 2 things? (a)joy or more joy (b) unsatiable delight or satiable delight (c) glory inexpressible or inflicting shame (d) None of the above (13) According to Lewis what we think about God is truly the most important thing. (a)True (b) False (14) Although it is incredible, Christ’s work has made it possible that some of us shall actually survive that examination, shall find approval, shall please God . (a)True (b) False (15) According to Lewis the weight or burden of glory is realizing that God may actually delight in us. (a) True (b) False (16) if I had rejected what the Bible says about glory I would have seen no connection between desire and the Christian promise. (a)True (b) False (17) The connection now between my desire and biblical view of glory now is perfectly clear. According to Christianity glory teaches me to hope for it, turns out to satisfy my original desire and indeed to reveal an element in that desire which I had not noticed. (a) True (b)False (18) By ceasing to think about my own wants, I have learned better what I really wanted. (a) True (b) False (19) Lewis now describes one of the most curious characteristics of our spiritual longings. “We usually notice it [our spiritual longing] just as the moment of the vision (a) dies baway (b) as the music ends (c) as the landscape loses the celestial light (d)all the above (20) According to Keats whenever you experience this spiritual longing you have experienced the journey homeward to habitual self. (a) True (b) False (21) For a few minutes we really belonged to that world . (a) True (b) False (22) Were we actually in that world or were we just mere spectators? (a)We were really in that world (b)We were just mere spectators (23) Because most of the things that are truly beautiful are inanimate, do they really notice us or take us into their world? (a) Yes (b)No (24) The mountains, the music, the books, etc. “become for a moment the” what? (a) the reality (b) the messengers (c) the illusion (d) none of the above (25) The message is so bitter because so seldom does the message seem intended for us. (a)True (b)False (26) By bitterness, is Lewis referring to pain or to resentment? (a) Pain (b) Resentment (27) The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm that yawns between us and reality, is part of our inconsolable secret. (a) True (b) False (28) Lewis states that this view of glory “becomes highly relevant to our deep desire. For glory meansmeant good report with God, acceptance by God, response, acknowledgment, and welcome into the heart of things.” (a)True (b)False (29) What will open at last? (a) No door will open (b) the door on which we have been knocking all our lives (c) None of the above (30) Being noticed by beauty and glory seems a little strange. You would think that we would notice glory. According to Paul though when Christ returns will we know God or will we be known by God? (a)We will know God (b) We will be known by God (31) Doesn’t God know everybody already though? Yet what terrifying words might God say to us on the last day of judgment? (a)There will be no terrifying words on Judgment Day (b) “I never knew you. Depart from Me.” (c) None of the above (32) To put it another way, “We can be left utterly and absolutely repelled.” (a) Yes (b)No (33) “On the other hand, we can be” (a) be called in (b) welcomed (c) received (d) acknowledged (d) All the above (34) And to be at last summoned inside would be both glory and honour beyond all our merits and also the healing of that old ache. (a)True (b)False (35) Lewis has been speaking about the first part of glory, admiration or approval. Now he goes to the second element or second part of glory. What is that second element? (a)brightness (b) splendour 9c)luminosity (d) all the above (36) We do not merely want to see beauty. What else do we want from beauty? (a)”To be united with the beauty we see (b) to pass into it (c) to receive it into ourselves (d) to bathe in it (e)to become part of it (f) all the above (37) Because we want to become united with beauty, what have we done with the air and earth and water? (a)we have done nothing with it (b) we have morphed it into something unrealistic (c) we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses and nymphs and elves (d) none of the above (38) Poets tell us lovely truths like the west wind really can sweep into a human soul (a) True (b) False (39) The myths are false as history. However, they are truly as what? (a) prophecy (b)myths (c) reality (d) all the above (40) At the moment we are on the wrong side of the door of beauty. We discern the freshness and purity. Do they make us pure and fresh? (a) Yes (b)No (41) All the rustling of the leaves of Scripture tell us that some day, God willing, we shall get in. (a)True (b)False (42) When will human souls put on this glory? (a) Never (b)When human souls have become as perfect in voluntary obedience (c) as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience (d)all the above (43) What is nature? (a) the first sketch (b) irrelevant to the issue (c)none of the above (44) Although nature is only a symbol of beauty, why is it an important symbol? (a) Because all people come into contact with it (b) Because it best represents Beauty (c) it is the symbol Scripture invites me to use (d) All the above (45) What shall we eat in the future, beyond Nature? (a) the tree of knowledge (b) the tree of life (c) the tree of Beauty (d)all the above (46) Right now the “faint, far-off results of those energies which God’s creative rapture implanted in matter when He made the worlds are what we now call physical pleasures.” (a)True (b)False (47) According to Augustine what will the rapture of the saved soul do? (a) the rapture of the saved soul will “depart from” the glorified body. (b) the rapture of the saved soul will “flow over” into the glorified body. (c) the rapture of the saved soul will “overwhelm” the glorified body. (d) All the above (48) Should we even try to experience this overflow of the soul into the body? (a)Yes (b)No (49) We drive out the thought that what is saved is a mere ghost (a) True (b) False (50) What though comes before the crown? (a) the cross (b) the throne (c) the glory (d)none of the above (51) According to Lewis in the meantime the essential point is following Christ. (a)True (b) False (52) According to Lewis what has been the practical point of all this talk about the longing for beauty or glory? (a)It is impossible for each to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is possible for him to think too often or too deeply about that of his neighbour. (b) It may be possible for each to think too much of our own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for us to think too often or too deeply about that of our neighbour. (53) What weight should be put upon our backs? (a) The weight or burden of my neighbor’s glory (b)The weight or burden of my own glory (54) This is a load so heavy that only what kind of person can carry it? (a) The strong (b)the proud (c)the humble (d) none of the above (55) Whose backs will break beneath this weight? (a)The strong (b) the proud (c) the humble (d) none of the above (56)It is a serious thing to live in a society made up of whom? (a) gods and goddesses (b) jews and Gentiles (c) Christians and Muslims (d) none of the above (57) When you talk to somebody, one of 2 things is true about that person. What are those 2 things? (a) the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. (b) the brightest and most interesting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare.(c) all the above ( 58) All day long we are helping others to one of these 2 destinations (a)True (b)False (59) Is there such thing as an ordinary person? (a) Yes (b) No

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