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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How should the fiend encourage the patient to think about malice and benevolence?
(a) Malice toward the neighbors, benevolence toward those remote and unknown.
(b) Malice toward declared enemies of war, benevolence to injured.
(c) Malice toward those remote and unknown, benevolence toward the neighbors.
(d) Malice toward war leaders, benevolence to people affected by war.

2. What is the name that issues policy for fiends?
(a) High Command.
(b) Screwtape.
(c) Home Office.
(d) Most High.

3. How can a fiend best use pleasures the patient experiences?
(a) Suggest more of the same to the point of overindulgence.
(b) Encourage forbidden uses of pleasure.
(c) Encourage regret and resentment.
(d) Suggest less of the same to create tension.

4. Why should patient prayers focus on the spiritual, never the practical?
(a) Keeps attention on what he sees as sins.
(b) Channels his energy on useless dialog with the Enemy.
(c) Practical matters and solutions have no place in prayers.
(d) Eliminates the need to take action by the patient.

5. Screwtape tells Wormwood it is best if patient avoids this.
(a) Financial support of missionary works.
(b) Visions of Scripture re-enactments.
(c) All inclinations to pray.
(d) Church attendance other than Sunday.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does humor always work toward a destructive purpose?

2. Screwtape says the best fiend work is done this way.

3. What does Screwtape suggest is a good strategy for ongoing fiend work?

4. What does the thought 'religion is all very well up to a point' lead to?

5. When does sex work best in the fiend's favor?

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