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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Lewis, when should a person be uncritical of other Christians' practices?
(a) When the practices are time consuming and demanding.
(b) When the practices do not involve actual sin.
(c) When the practices involve the Enemy.
(d) When the practices are similar to the church a person attends.

2. How is God's love viewed from Hell's standpoint?
(a) A useful concept because people tend to reject it.
(b) A useful concept because people unsuccessfully try to "earn" it.
(c) Devious and selfish, totally incomprehensible and impossible.
(d) A fanciful notion with no basis or proof.

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

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

5. When does sex work best in the fiend's favor?
(a) When sex is bereft of love, as a remedy for emotional pain.
(b) When the patient is an adolescent.
(c) When sex involves deceit of another.
(d) When sex is readily available and involves multiple partners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Screwtape's response to whether it is desirable for a patient to be in love?

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

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

4. How should the fiend encourage the patient to think about malice and benevolence?

5. What makes the fiend's job easier?

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