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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 law of Undulation?
(a) Humans usually forget things, then repeat those same actions.
(b) The life of a human is a series of peaks and troughs.
(c) The human mindset often follows the seasonal changes.
(d) Good times are always followed by regret.

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

3. What is an excellent way to insulate the heart from the Enemy?
(a) Raunchy jokes about sexual excess.
(b) Jokes about the Enemy and his servants.
(c) Flippantly pass off everything as subject matter for jest.
(d) Find fault with all types of humor.

4. Why does Screwtape advise it is good the new Christian is still going to church?
(a) Keeps his focus on empty ritual rather than substance.
(b) Keeps him alert to the sins of fellow churchgoers.
(c) Keeps him from noticing his faith is slipping away.
(d) Allows him to think he understands all about the Enemy.

5. How should the fiend encourage the patient to think about malice and benevolence?
(a) Malice toward war leaders, benevolence to people affected by war.
(b) Malice toward the neighbors, benevolence toward those remote and unknown.
(c) Malice toward declared enemies of war, benevolence to injured.
(d) Malice toward those remote and unknown, benevolence toward the neighbors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Screwtape want people totally obsessed with the future?

2. When does Screwtape think it more advisable that the patient not think about the future?

3. What have the Enemy's servants taught for 2000 years as the greatest temptation?

4. Screwtape tells Wormwood it is best if patient avoids this.

5. When is Wormwood close to winning the soul of the patient in a faction?

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