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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letter 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Screwtape want people totally obsessed with the future?
(a) Proves the future does not really exist.
(b) Manipulates future outcomes.
(c) Creates unhappiness and dissatisfaction in the here and now.
(d) Provides the best conditions for future sinfulness.

2. What does Screwtape say is another sign of gluttony in addition to overconsumption?
(a) Choosing to eat alone whenever possible.
(b) Rude manners at table.
(c) Absence of pleasant conversation at table.
(d) Crankiness if denied one's way.

3. Why does Screwtape advise that unselfishness is fertile ground for marital strife?
(a) Unselfishness leads to sexual dysfunction.
(b) A woman thinks it is taking trouble for others, a man thinks it is not giving trouble to others.
(c) There is not any way to define unselfishness.
(d) Unselfishness can alter a person's thinking.

4. Due to devilish ideas, what do people think about sexual satisfaction only through marriage?
(a) This might work for very few people.
(b) A truly impossible notion.
(c) Only an uninformed fool would think that.
(d) A truly distasteful idea.

5. What does Lewis think is needed within a marriage?
(a) Denial of free will in favor of harmony.
(b) Effort by free will to form faith and virtues.
(c) Openness to criticism.
(d) Prayerfulness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a new Christian think about going to church with commonplace neighbors?

2. What is one main theme Lewis repeatedly asserts?

3. How does the Enemy want the patient to view the future?

4. What makes the fiend's job easier?

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

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