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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What usually brings a person to Hell?
(a) Denial of the existence of the Enemy.
(b) Small betrayals of the true self.
(c) Accumulation of material wealth.
(d) Sexual liaisons and sexual betrayals.

2. What does it indicate when a person is continually church shopping?
(a) The person is looking at churches with criticism and dissatisfaction.
(b) The person is looking for virtues.
(c) The person is gaining deeper understanding of the Enemy.
(d) The person does not understand the nature of humanity.

3. What can be fatal to a fiend's plan for a patient?
(a) Malice becomes benevolence.
(b) Kindness becomes benevolence.
(c) Good intentions become habits.
(d) Virtues become habits.

4. What is Screwtape's description of the safest road to Hell?
(a) Regular opportunities for sexual liaisons
(b) Total disbelief in fiends.
(c) Family and friends that enable a person
(d) A gentle slope without turns, milestones, or signposts.

5. How should the fiend encourage the patient to think about malice and benevolence?
(a) Malice toward the neighbors, benevolence toward those remote and unknown.
(b) Malice toward war leaders, benevolence to people affected by war.
(c) Malice toward declared enemies of war, benevolence to injured.
(d) Malice toward those remote and unknown, benevolence toward the neighbors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Screwtape advise it is good the new Christian is still going to church?

2. How does Screwtape think about the patient's mind?

3. What does Screwtape think is particularly fun about churches?

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

5. Screwtape advises that which of these pairings especially help to barricade the patient mind against the Enemy?

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