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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is a major sin by the patient not always helpful?
(a) Awakens the patient to just how lax he has become.
(b) Serious sin needs to be repeated for full effect.
(c) The nature of major sin can vary from person to person.
(d) Major sin is usually public, lessens impact.

2. What are the best sort of jokes?
(a) Jokes about sex.
(b) Jokes about churchgoers.
(c) Jokes that excuse acts of cruelty or cowardice.
(d) Jokes about science.

3. What type of friendships should Wormwood encourage to the patient?
(a) People that have few moral values.
(b) People that are bright, skeptical, wealthy and worldly.
(c) People that are wholly committed churchgoers.
(d) People that have many moral values.

4. What is the means to allow awakening in the patient?
(a) Repentance of all major sins.
(b) Stillness of the soul.
(c) Rejection of materialistic mindset.
(d) Overcoming small, bad habits.

5. What can be fatal to a fiend's plan for a patient?
(a) Virtues become habits.
(b) Kindness becomes benevolence.
(c) Good intentions become habits.
(d) Malice becomes benevolence.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Screwtape summarize that it is fine if the patient only feels renewed?

2. According to Lewis, when should a person be uncritical of other Christians' practices?

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

4. Why should Wormwood attack immediately if the patient is happily living in the present?

5. What is one of the best fiend tactics to use during spiritual dullness?

Short Essay Questions

1. Lewis elaborates on the traditional version of gluttony as over-consumption of food or drink. What does he describe as the modern forms of gluttony and its effects?

2. Why does Screwtape think it is not favorable when a person does not care what others think?

3. Lewis contends ideas can be corrupted by corrupting the language associated with ideas. For example, what does Screwtape brag about corruption of the word "Puritanism"?

4. Wormwood sees a dry spell in the patient's faith as a totally positive development. Why does Screwtape see this as a shortcoming of Wormwood's training and not necessarily a positive?

5. The High Command has decided it is better that devils not reveal themselves. How does Screwtape explain the positive impact of that decision?

6. Screwtape instructs that not all humor is useful to a devil, but certain types are especially useful. What are the types of humor useful to a devil?

7. Why does Screwtape advise if the patient must pray at all, center prayer on his feelings and images?

8. How does Screwtape explain that false humility can be useful to a devil, but true humility can be dangerous?

9. Screwtape tells Wormwood he can possibly win the battle for the man's soul by getting him to join a faction, any faction. How is this possible?

10. How does Screwtape recommend that Wormwood prevent humans from using their reasoning?

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