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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes Screwtape especially angry about the couple?
(a) They feel sexual attraction to each other, and God approves of it.
(b) They expect and are planning for happiness in marriage.
(c) They openly express love of God.
(d) They hold no secrets from one another.

2. What is the Judaeo-Christian principle that Lewis reinforces?
(a) Marrying the wrong woman for the wrong reasons can still lead to happiness.
(b) "One flesh" is a discussion topic, not a real teaching.
(c) Sexual intercourse and sexual perversions are not major issues.
(d) Marriage and sexual intercourse are irrevocable acts, not to be entered into lightly at all.

3. How does Screwtape instruct Wormwood to take advantage of suffering?
(a) Muddle thinking to conclude life purpose is to suffer.
(b) Encourage a person to confuse suffering and virtue.
(c) Have the person set limits as to suffering endured that when exceeded causes despair.
(d) Muddle thinking to conclude life purpose is to suffer.

4. What does Lewis advise is the outcome of lack of commitment to important matters?
(a) A life of befuddled underachievement.
(b) Strong possibility of failure.
(c) Strong possibility of worldly success.
(d) A life lived mostly free of stress.

5. What does Screwtape again need to remind Wormwood about the war?
(a) War itself is secondary to how people act during a war.
(b) War provides opportunity to create heroes.
(c) War provides a distraction from attention to God.
(d) War itself provokes an increase in prayer.

6. How does Screwtape describe an "infernal Venus"?
(a) A woman who makes a man feel sexually inferior.
(b) A woman who does not satisfy sexual needs.
(c) A woman who satisfies sexual appetites while making life a living hell.
(d) A woman that reminds a man of his mother.

7. What virtue does Screwtape suggest will be lacking in the patient because of his new friends?
(a) Love.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Humility.
(d) Forgiveness.

8. What does Lewis suggest is a person's reward for doing one's duty?
(a) A sense of inner peace throughout life.
(b) Consistent spiritual pains.
(c) A peaceful death.
(d) Seeing and being with God.

9. What is the one thing a human struggles with that can lessen with age and help the devils?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Chastity.
(d) Perseverance.

10. What is one of Screwtape's favorite tricks concerning Christianity?
(a) Suggest Christianity is a mind-numbing drug.
(b) Propose Christianity exists only to comfort the weak.
(c) Make Christianity a means to an end, thereby creating unattainable mental notions.
(d) Suggest Christianity is learned in childhood and is a childish idea.

11. What does Screwtape suggest to Wormwood if God does not answer a prayer?
(a) Suggest that God is stern and slow to react.
(b) Suggest that God does not intervene directly in individual lives.
(c) Asking God for things is absurd because prayer has no impact upon the world.
(d) Remind that a person has free will; God is just a bystander.

12. What sort of Christian does Screwtape prefer?
(a) Christians befuddled by Christianity.
(b) Mere Christians.
(c) Uncommitted Christians.
(d) Christians interested in Christianity and something else.

13. How does Lewis describe the similarity of birth and death?
(a) A person cannot remember either occurrence.
(b) Two interruptions in the world of pure spirit.
(c) A person has to do both alone.
(d) Pain followed by rejoicing.

14. What pernicious things does Lewis say can claim a soul away from God?
(a) Charity and good intentions to the point of obsession.
(b) Choice of unsuitable friends and habits.
(c) Abandonment of positive thoughts and hopes.
(d) A lifetime of prosperity and worldliness.

15. What is it that Lewis warns undermines courage and perseverance?
(a) An untested belief in the ability to act the hero.
(b) Prior instances of cowardice.
(c) Mental escape hatches that provide an "out."
(d) Concern about the opinions of others.

Short Answer Questions

1. Focusing upon impossible ideals detracts from what?

2. In Lewis's viewpoint, true love in marriage depends heavily upon what?

3. What should Wormwood do to encourage snappishness and increase aggravations?

4. What has Screwtape learned in corresponding with Slumtrimpet, the girlfriend's fiend?

5. What does Lewis think is the key to human dignity?

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