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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Screwtape advises that which of these pairings especially help to barricade the patient mind against the Enemy?
(a) Revenge and nastiness.
(b) Suspense and anxiety.
(c) Grief and sadness.
(d) Envy and jealousy.

2. According to Lewis, when should a person be uncritical of other Christians' practices?
(a) When the practices are time consuming and demanding.
(b) When the practices do not involve actual sin.
(c) When the practices involve the Enemy.
(d) When the practices are similar to the church a person attends.

3. How does Screwtape describe an "infernal Venus"?
(a) A woman that reminds a man of his mother.
(b) A woman who makes a man feel sexually inferior.
(c) A woman who satisfies sexual appetites while making life a living hell.
(d) A woman who does not satisfy sexual needs.

4. What is a very helpful satanic idea concerning sexual temptation?
(a) Chastity is unhealthy.
(b) The more sexual activity the better.
(c) Sexual temptation cannot be wiped away.
(d) Sexual abstention is impossible.

5. When does humor least serve the fiend's mission?
(a) When the patient misunderstands the punch line.
(b) When the patient knows actions and deeds matter more than thoughts and words.
(c) When the patient sees humor in all things.
(d) When humor is lacking a victim.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why should Wormwood draw the patient's attention to his humility?

2. In Lewis's viewpoint, true love in marriage depends heavily upon what?

3. What is Screwtape's response to whether it is desirable for a patient to be in love?

4. Screwtape tells Wormwood to train the patient about prayer.

5. What does Lewis say is the modern fiend's methods of temptation?

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