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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Screwtape think is particularly fun about churches?
(a) To create suspicion about neighboring church actions.
(b) To promote similarities among religions, decreasing options.
(c) To work up hatred between religious bodies based on mere differences in ritual.
(d) To create distractions during church services.

3. What do life happenings provide for every person according to Lewis?
(a) A chance to test God.
(b) An occasion to possibly involve sex or perversion.
(c) An occasion to come closer to Heaven or to Hell.
(d) A chance to find or to advance personal success.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Screwtape suggest is a good strategy for ongoing fiend work?

2. What is one main theme Lewis repeatedly asserts?

3. What is one of the best fiend tactics to use during spiritual dullness?

4. What does it indicate when a person is continually church shopping?

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

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