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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the goal of true humility?
(a) To guarantee God is pleased.
(b) To turn the person's attention to God and others.
(c) To turn the person's attention to all sinfulness.
(d) To guarantee salvation of the soul.

2. Why does Screwtape say God does not want humans to dwell on their sins?
(a) This gives too much attention to sin.
(b) This turns them too much toward themselves.
(c) This leads the person to drift away from Him.
(d) This leads to repeat of the sinfulness.

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

4. Why is false humility good for the fiend's cause?
(a) False humility is preoccupation with self.
(b) False humility is an insult to the Enemy.
(c) False humility feeds the emotions.
(d) False humility leads to sinfulness.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is a reliable tactic to use on a new Christian?

3. What makes the fiend's job easier?

4. What are the pleasures that awaken the patient to repentance?

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

(see the answer key)

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