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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Screwtape say is the outcome of a person thinking time is their own?
(a) Laziness and wasting of time.
(b) Exasperation and impatience when "his/her" time is impinged upon.
(c) Lack of focus and procrastination.
(d) Entitlement to prevail upon the time of another.

2. What does Lewis think is needed within a marriage?
(a) Denial of free will in favor of harmony.
(b) Openness to criticism.
(c) Prayerfulness.
(d) Effort by free will to form faith and virtues.

3. How does Screwtape think about the patient's mind?
(a) Separated compartments with the will as the smallest.
(b) Pyramid shape with the will as the base.
(c) Concentric circles with the will as the innermost.
(d) Several layers with the will as the largest.

4. How does Lewis summarize the cosmic battle?
(a) God's nature is to create and give; Satan's nature is to plot and steal.
(b) Good will only triumph through man's actions.
(c) God's forces are angels and the living; Satan's forces are countless fiends.
(d) The world is equally balanced between good and evil.

5. What is Screwtape's view of the patient's new girl?
(a) She is of loose character and morals.
(b) She is a sincere Christian that in the old days would have been fed to the lions.
(c) She is dimwitted and easily manipulated.
(d) She is a sexual pervert who will be a good match.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Screwtape see as one advantage of church?

2. Screwtape advises that which of these pairings especially help to barricade the patient mind against the Enemy?

3. What can be fatal to a fiend's plan for a patient?

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

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

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