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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an excellent way to insulate the heart from the Enemy?
(a) Raunchy jokes about sexual excess.
(b) Flippantly pass off everything as subject matter for jest.
(c) Find fault with all types of humor.
(d) Jokes about the Enemy and his servants.

2. Why is the laughter of joy and fun no good to the devils?
(a) It can become permanent.
(b) It is related to Heaven.
(c) Creates a longing for more of the same.
(d) Sets a good example to children.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What can be fatal to a fiend's plan for a patient?

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

3. Screwtape says the best fiend work is done this way.

4. Why should patient prayers focus on the spiritual, never the practical?

5. What makes the fiend's job easier?

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