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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why should patient prayers focus on the spiritual, never the practical?
(a) Practical matters and solutions have no place in prayers.
(b) Keeps attention on what he sees as sins.
(c) Channels his energy on useless dialog with the Enemy.
(d) Eliminates the need to take action by the patient.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the goal of true humility?

2. What does Screwtape say is the end result of the devil's Historical Point of View?

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

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

5. What are heavenly pleasures that reflect love of friends and family for one another?

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