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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Lewis label Christianity attached only to its own unchanging precepts?
(a) Fashionable Christianity.
(b) Ancient Christianity.
(c) Modern Christianity.
(d) Mere Christianity.

3. How does Screwtape see the usefulness of The Same Old Thing?
(a) Humans think change for the sake of change is always best.
(b) Humans resist changes, makes devil work is easier.
(c) Humans fear change, makes devil work is easier.
(d) Humans see sameness as stagnation, constantly seek change.

4. What does Screwtape say is another sign of gluttony in addition to overconsumption?
(a) Choosing to eat alone whenever possible.
(b) Crankiness if denied one's way.
(c) Absence of pleasant conversation at table.
(d) Rude manners at table.

5. What does Lewis say is the modern fiend's methods of temptation?
(a) Create a false sense of sophistication about life experiences.
(b) Create vanities that become excesses of thought or action.
(c) Convince people the old-fashioned concepts are false.
(d) Muddle the essentials of old-fashioned concepts such as gluttony.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Screwtape say is the root of the sin of gluttony?

4. What sort of Christian does Screwtape prefer?

5. What does Screwtape label as fashionable Christianity?

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