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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Enemy consistently helps the patient in which of these situations?
(a) Imagined daily slights and insults.
(b) Grief and sadness.
(c) Present and actual suffering.
(d) Calm for imagined fears and hypotheticals.

2. What are heavenly pleasures that reflect love of friends and family for one another?
(a) Food and drink.
(b) Joy and fun.
(c) Travels together on vacations.
(d) Attendance at church together.

3. What is the worst outcome for the fiend when a patient awakens to self and renewal?
(a) Realizes the true self of a human belongs to God.
(b) Realizes sin has to be overcome to avoid Hell.
(c) Realizes thoughts and emotions are more important than actions.
(d) Realizes others are the source of his sinfulness.

4. Why is Wormwood told "living in the future" is preferable to living in the now.
(a) The past can be altered through imaginings.
(b) The future is thought to be remote.
(c) The future cannot be altered by the present.
(d) This removes the patient from doing anything useful or charitable in the present.

5. Why does Screwtape have little regard for a patient's feelings?
(a) Feelings are seldom important, actions are what matter.
(b) Feelings can be easily manipulated by family and friends.
(c) Feelings are usually short-lived and conflicting.
(d) Feelings cannot be combated easily.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why should patient prayers focus on the spiritual, never the practical?

2. Screwtape tells Wormwood to train the patient about prayer.

3. Which type of prayer pleases the Enemy the most?

4. When does Screwtape think it more advisable that the patient not think about the future?

5. What is the means to allow awakening in the patient?

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