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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letter 27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does humor least serve the fiend's mission?
(a) When the patient sees humor in all things.
(b) When the patient misunderstands the punch line.
(c) When the patient knows actions and deeds matter more than thoughts and words.
(d) When humor is lacking a victim.

2. Screwtape says the best fiend work is done this way.
(a) Encouraging the patient to hold God accountable.
(b) Keeping things out of the mind rather than planting things within it.
(c) Reviewing his fantasies while the patient rests.
(d) Planting suggestive thoughts during a patient's idle moments.

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

4. What are the best sort of jokes?
(a) Jokes about churchgoers.
(b) Jokes that excuse acts of cruelty or cowardice.
(c) Jokes about sex.
(d) Jokes about science.

5. What does Screwtape suggest is a good strategy for ongoing fiend work?
(a) Sex should always be overemphasized.
(b) Allow the free will to seek sex perversions as a phase.
(c) All pleasures should be encouraged as only a phase.
(d) Get the patient to think in terms of phases.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lewis think is required to sustain a marriage?

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

3. What does Screwtape say is the outcome of a person thinking time is their own?

4. Why does Screwtape advise it is good the new Christian is still going to church?

5. What do life happenings provide for every person according to Lewis?

(see the answer key)

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