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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 those remote and unknown, benevolence toward the neighbors.
(b) Malice toward the neighbors, benevolence toward those remote and unknown.
(c) Malice toward declared enemies of war, benevolence to injured.
(d) Malice toward war leaders, benevolence to people affected by war.

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

3. The Enemy consistently helps the patient in which of these situations?
(a) Grief and sadness.
(b) Present and actual suffering.
(c) Calm for imagined fears and hypotheticals.
(d) Imagined daily slights and insults.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the thought 'religion is all very well up to a point' lead to?

2. What does Screwtape see as one advantage of church?

3. Why does St. Paul suggest others should submit to those with rigid opinions concerning church details?

4. What is one main theme Lewis repeatedly asserts?

5. How is God's love viewed from Hell's standpoint?

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