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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. What does Lewis think is needed within a marriage?
(a) Denial of free will in favor of harmony.
(b) Effort by free will to form faith and virtues.
(c) Prayerfulness.
(d) Openness to criticism.

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

3. What does Screwtape advise is the best means to get a person to act cowardly?
(a) Fill the mind with little escape hatches in advance of the time courage is needed.
(b) Provide historical examples of humans that failed tests of courage.
(c) Instill thoughts of jealousy and envy.
(d) Remind the patient of personal shortcomings.

4. What is the point Lewis is making with the quotation "Experience is the mother of illusion"?
(a) There is no truth because everything is an illusion.
(b) Relying on personal experience can bind a person to their mistakes.
(c) God allows humans to experience emotion.
(d) God's purpose of human free will is to create illusion.

5. What does Screwtape say the Enemy claims is unselfishness?
(a) Marital fidelity.
(b) Charity.
(c) Chastity.
(d) Justice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Screwtape say is the Enemy's standard about sexual matters?

2. What is Screwtape's view of the patient's new girl?

3. How does Screwtape instruct Wormwood to use the horrors of war?

4. What is a very helpful satanic idea concerning sexual temptation?

5. What is Screwtape's response to whether it is desirable for a patient to be in love?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Screwtape explain that living long and dying old is better for the devils than for a person to die young?

2. Letter 22 is loaded with humor demonstrating Lewis' narrative creativity. What are some examples of this humor?

3. What is a basic Lewis theme he illustrates when Wormwood asks is it desirable for the man to be in love or not to be in love?

4. How does Lewis portray the man as representative of humankind?

5. What consistent Lewis theme about devil work is woven into Screwtape's specifics about women and love and sex and marriage?

6. Part of Screwtape's toast at the annual dinner of the Tempters' Training College is an explanation of how Democracy helps devils work. What are the highlights of this help that Democracy provides?

7. Lewis explains that in the end either God or Satan will claim a person's time, actions and ultimately the soul? How does each claim ownership in this eternal struggle between God and Satan?

8. Why does Screwtape encourage Wormwood to have the couple sacrifice and be "unselfish" toward each other?

9. Lewis says mental escape hatches undermine people in every endeavor that requires courage and perseverance. What does he mean by this and how do mental escape hatches work?

10. What does Screwtape outline as the strategy for instilling spiritual pride in a human?

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