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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why should patient prayers focus on the spiritual, never the practical?
(a) Keeps attention on what he sees as sins.
(b) Channels his energy on useless dialog with the Enemy.
(c) Practical matters and solutions have no place in prayers.
(d) Eliminates the need to take action by the patient.

2. What is the role of the language department of Hell?
(a) Promote good news items to provoke jealousy.
(b) Corrupt the meaning of a word, thereby corrupting the idea.
(c) Promote bad news items to create anxiety.
(d) Suggest meaningless jargon.

3. What have the Enemy's servants taught for 2000 years as the greatest temptation?
(a) Sex
(b) Pride
(c) Science
(d) Worldliness

4. Why should Wormwood draw the patient's attention to his humility?
(a) Humility discourages self-examination.
(b) Humility encourages belief in modern jargon.
(c) Humility befuddles the mind of the patient.
(d) Pride sets in almost immediately when a person thinks he is humble.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Enemy consistently helps the patient in which of these situations?

2. Why is it best to discourage belief in fiends?

3. What does Screwtape suggest is a good strategy for ongoing fiend work?

4. What does Screwtape think is the true danger about wars?

5. Why does Screwtape say God does not want humans to dwell on their sins?

(see the answer key)

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