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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Screwtape, which is the better way for a patient to die?
(a) Quietly at home, without prayer.
(b) In a nursing home among lying doctors, lying nurses, and lying friends.
(c) Tragic accident shocking to family and friends.
(d) Anonymously in an action of war.

2. Why should Wormwood attack immediately if the patient is happily living in the present?
(a) The patient may become permanently happy.
(b) The patient has no right to be happy.
(c) Happy is not a natural human condition.
(d) The Enemy always helps happy people.

3. Why is it preferable to focus the patient's mind on the future?
(a) This stirs up ambition.
(b) This is contrary to what God prefers.
(c) This stirs up emphasis on the unimportant.
(d) This stirs up memories of past shortcomings.

4. What should Wormwood do if the patient begins to think fiends exist?
(a) Minimize fiendish activity for a spell.
(b) Suggest a fiend image of something in red tights.
(c) Suggest to patient he is losing his mind.
(d) Suggest the patient converse with the fiends.

5. When does humor always work toward a destructive purpose?
(a) When humor involves only family members.
(b) When humor mocks the Enemy.
(c) When humor involves a lack of chastity.
(d) When humor mocks worldly matters.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Enemy want the patient to view the future?

2. What is the best ally for a fiend?

3. What is the wine of fiends to be sipped eternally?

4. Screwtape says humans living together will develop which of these over time?

5. What is the law of Undulation?

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