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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the key point Screwtape tells about time?
(a) Time is a gift to be used in the service of God.
(b) Nobody really knows what time it is.
(c) People do not truly understand time and how to use it.
(d) Time is a silly measure invented by mankind.

2. What does Screwtape offer Wormwood as proof that God is vulgar?
(a) He makes promises to humans about eternity.
(b) He created sex for humans.
(c) He killed Himself on a cross.
(d) He has filled the world with pleasure.

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

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

5. What does Screwtape say is the end result of the devil's Historical Point of View?
(a) Prevents wisdom from being passed from generation to generation.
(b) Discourages people from learning about history.
(c) Discourages people from innovative modern thinking.
(d) Encourages scholars to research more history.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lewis summarize the cosmic battle?

2. What does Screwtape say the Enemy claims is unselfishness?

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

4. What is the name that issues policy for fiends?

5. How do devils divorce humans from the learning of thinkers of the past?

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