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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letter 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How should Wormwood try to develop permanent deceit in the patient?
(a) Convince the patient that the more science he knows the better.
(b) Encourage self-perception as a complex person superior to others.
(c) Participate in church affairs and worldly affairs at the same time.
(d) Avoid church going people.

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

3. What does Screwtape label as fashionable Christianity?
(a) Christianity devoted only to social justice.
(b) Christianity devoted only to any single subject.
(c) Christianity concerned with passing trends and fads.
(d) Christianity devoted only to ending war.

4. According to Screwtape, which old wisdom is mostly dismissed in the modern world?
(a) People should have a consistent savings plan.
(b) Modesty in appearance is always appropriate.
(c) People should actively try to improve upon shortcomings.
(d) People should be prudent about choice of friends and associates.

5. What does Screwtape say is the root of the sin of gluttony?
(a) Desire to offend.
(b) Ideas of superiority.
(c) Selfishness and lack of consideration.
(d) Impatience.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lewis suggest the modern person avoid gluttony?

2. What does Lewis label Christianity attached only to its own unchanging precepts?

3. What type of friendships should Wormwood encourage to the patient?

4. What is one of Screwtape's most preferred strategies about the human mind?

5. What does Screwtape believe to be an elementary fact?

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