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

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

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

4. What is one of Screwtape's most preferred strategies about the human mind?
(a) Focus on sexual distractions to the point of overload.
(b) Fixate on intellectual abstractions rather than on temporal and spiritual realities.
(c) Foster disagreement about minor aspects of life.
(d) Focus on Christianity to the point of overload.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Screwtape label as fashionable Christianity?

2. What does Screwtape say is the modern version of gluttony?

3. What does Lewis think makes a person slave to the appetites?

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

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

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