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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Screwtape tells Wormwood to train the patient about prayer.
(a) The best prayers are measured by the feelings produced.
(b) The best prayers are measured by review of personal possessions.
(c) The best prayers are built upon childhood parrot-like repetition.
(d) The best prayers are personal imaginings about God.

2. What are the pleasures that awaken the patient to repentance?
(a) Helping with church projects.
(b) Reunions with old friends.
(c) Reading a book and taking a walk.
(d) Dinners with the family.

3. The Enemy consistently helps the patient in which of these situations?
(a) Calm for imagined fears and hypotheticals.
(b) Grief and sadness.
(c) Imagined daily slights and insults.
(d) Present and actual suffering.

4. What is Screwtape's description of the safest road to Hell?
(a) Family and friends that enable a person
(b) Total disbelief in fiends.
(c) A gentle slope without turns, milestones, or signposts.
(d) Regular opportunities for sexual liaisons

5. What is the mindset that discourages belief that fiends exist?
(a) All things can be explained by science.
(b) The Enemy has totally conquered all fiends.
(c) Disbelief in all spiritual matters, good and bad.
(d) Fiends cannot exist in a materialistic world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Enemy view as true loyalty?

2. Why is subtly by degrees Screwtape's preferred method of temptation?

3. What does Screwtape remind is the real business of a fiend?

4. How should the fiend encourage the patient to think about malice and benevolence?

5. What does Screwtape believe to be an elementary fact?

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