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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Screwtape think about the patient's mind?
(a) Separated compartments with the will as the smallest.
(b) Concentric circles with the will as the innermost.
(c) Pyramid shape with the will as the base.
(d) Several layers with the will as the largest.

2. What makes Screwtape especially angry about the couple?
(a) They feel sexual attraction to each other, and God approves of it.
(b) They expect and are planning for happiness in marriage.
(c) They hold no secrets from one another.
(d) They openly express love of God.

3. What is Screwtape's suggestion for dividing the patient from the girl and friends?
(a) Provoke political disagreements as to how to apply faith to social realities.
(b) Suggest spirituality has no place in modern life.
(c) Suggest faith is merely a social custom.
(d) Provoke political disagreements as to how to apply social realities to faith.

4. What are the best sort of jokes?
(a) Jokes about science.
(b) Jokes about sex.
(c) Jokes about churchgoers.
(d) Jokes that excuse acts of cruelty or cowardice.

5. What is the Judaeo-Christian principle that Lewis reinforces?
(a) Marriage and sexual intercourse are irrevocable acts, not to be entered into lightly at all.
(b) Marrying the wrong woman for the wrong reasons can still lead to happiness.
(c) Sexual intercourse and sexual perversions are not major issues.
(d) "One flesh" is a discussion topic, not a real teaching.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Screwtape offer Wormwood as proof that God is vulgar?

2. Why does Screwtape distrust church in general?

3. How does Screwtape see the usefulness of The Same Old Thing?

4. What has Screwtape learned in corresponding with Slumtrimpet, the girlfriend's fiend?

5. Why is false humility good for the fiend's cause?

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