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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the origin of all pleasure, including sex?
(a) The Enemy.
(b) Our Father Below.
(c) Worldly success.
(d) Free will.

2. How can a fiend best use pleasures the patient experiences?
(a) Encourage regret and resentment.
(b) Encourage forbidden uses of pleasure.
(c) Suggest more of the same to the point of overindulgence.
(d) Suggest less of the same to create tension.

3. How does Screwtape think about the patient's mind?
(a) Concentric circles with the will as the innermost.
(b) Several layers with the will as the largest.
(c) Separated compartments with the will as the smallest.
(d) Pyramid shape with the will as the base.

4. Why does Screwtape advise it is good the new Christian is still going to church?
(a) Keeps him alert to the sins of fellow churchgoers.
(b) Allows him to think he understands all about the Enemy.
(c) Keeps him from noticing his faith is slipping away.
(d) Keeps his focus on empty ritual rather than substance.

5. What is Screwtape's response to whether it is desirable for a patient to be in love?
(a) Always undesirable, directs the mind to God.
(b) Neither desirable or undesirable, only useful if it can corrupt.
(c) Always undesirable, provides the patient an ally.
(d) Always desirable, befuddles the patient.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do life happenings provide for every person according to Lewis?

2. What is Screwtape's description of the safest road to Hell?

3. When does sex work best in the fiend's favor?

4. Why is subtly by degrees Screwtape's preferred method of temptation?

5. What will cause a person to retreat from the Enemy into the darkness of Nothing? .

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