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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) People do not truly understand time and how to use it.
(c) Nobody really knows what time it is.
(d) Time is a silly measure invented by mankind.

2. 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.

3. What is Screwtape's response to whether it is desirable for a patient to be in love?
(a) Always undesirable, provides the patient an ally.
(b) Always desirable, befuddles the patient.
(c) Always undesirable, directs the mind to God.
(d) Neither desirable or undesirable, only useful if it can corrupt.

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

5. How do devils divorce humans from the learning of thinkers of the past?
(a) Suggest the authors had simplistic viewpoints.
(b) Befuddle people by mixing falsehood with history.
(c) Suggest the authors fit only to their time and place in history.
(d) Discourage people by making past figures larger than life itself.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does St. Paul suggest others should submit to those with rigid opinions concerning church details?

2. How should Wormwood try to portray Christianity?

3. Why should Wormwood draw the patient's attention to his humility?

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

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

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