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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does it indicate when a person is continually church shopping?
(a) The person is looking at churches with criticism and dissatisfaction.
(b) The person is gaining deeper understanding of the Enemy.
(c) The person is looking for virtues.
(d) The person does not understand the nature of humanity.

2. What does Screwtape believe to be an elementary fact?
(a) Humans are incapable of setting and keeping goals.
(b) Humans always at some point distrust the Enemy.
(c) Humans tend to become whatever they pretend to be.
(d) Humans can be easily misled.

3. How do devils use the media concerning female desirability?
(a) Shift male desire from reality to abstraction.
(b) Display females in suggestive poses.
(c) Display females in unflattering images.
(d) Display females as sexual objects.

4. How should Wormwood try to develop permanent deceit in the patient?
(a) Convince the patient that the more science he knows the better.
(b) Participate in church affairs and worldly affairs at the same time.
(c) Encourage self-perception as a complex person superior to others.
(d) Avoid church going people.

5. What does Lewis say is the modern fiend's methods of temptation?
(a) Create vanities that become excesses of thought or action.
(b) Muddle the essentials of old-fashioned concepts such as gluttony.
(c) Convince people the old-fashioned concepts are false.
(d) Create a false sense of sophistication about life experiences.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does humor least serve the fiend's mission?

2. According to Lewis, when should a person be uncritical of other Christians' practices?

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

4. Why does Screwtape distrust church in general?

5. When does humor always work toward a destructive purpose?

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