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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Screwtape says humans living together will develop which of these over time?
(a) Spiritual awareness of the other.
(b) Voice tones and facials that irritate.
(c) Dependency about practical life matters.
(d) Contradictory love and hate feelings.

2. Why does Lewis contend scholars are the least likely to learn from thinkers of the past?
(a) Scholars rarely ask if the content is true and befuddle themselves with contexts and categories.
(b) Scholars understand things only from one aspect of training.
(c) The public expects scholars to discover newness in the old and the known.
(d) Scholars confuse each other.

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

4. What does Screwtape say is the root of the sin of gluttony?
(a) Selfishness and lack of consideration.
(b) Desire to offend.
(c) Ideas of superiority.
(d) Impatience.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why are factions to be encouraged by fiends?

3. The Enemy consistently helps the patient in which of these situations?

4. What does Screwtape suggest to Wormwood if God does not answer a prayer?

5. What virtue does Screwtape suggest will be lacking in the patient because of his new friends?

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