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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When is Wormwood close to winning the soul of the patient in a faction?
(a) When the patient comes to believe the faction is part of the religion.
(b) When factions become violent toward others.
(c) When the patient faction links with other factions.
(d) When the number of souls in a faction is extremely large.

3. What makes the fiend's job easier?
(a) When a person resents what has already happened, not what to do presently.
(b) When a person is concerned with what to do, not what to think.
(c) When a person is concerned with what to do, regardless of what happens.
(d) When a person is concerned with what might happen, not with what to do.

4. 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) Jokes about the Enemy and his servants.
(d) Find fault with all types of humor.

5. How can a fiend best use pleasures the patient experiences?
(a) Encourage forbidden uses of pleasure.
(b) Suggest less of the same to create tension.
(c) Encourage regret and resentment.
(d) Suggest more of the same to the point of overindulgence.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When does humor least serve the fiend's mission?

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

4. Why is it best to discourage belief in fiends?

5. Screwtape says humans living together will develop which of these over time?

(see the answer key)

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