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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Screwtape say is the Enemy's standard about sexual matters?
(a) Constant wariness is required.
(b) Complete abstinence or complete monogamy.
(c) Can never be used as an enticement.
(d) Can be controlled by the intellect.

2. According to Screwtape, what is typical thinking for a new Christian?
(a) He has God's favor by allowing himself to become a Christian.
(b) Life and choices will now be much better.
(c) Neighbors and friends will admire the change.
(d) Church is full of good people.

3. What usually brings a person to Hell?
(a) Denial of the existence of the Enemy.
(b) Small betrayals of the true self.
(c) Accumulation of material wealth.
(d) Sexual liaisons and sexual betrayals.

4. When is the fiend's mission in the greatest danger?
(a) When the patient chooses the spiritual instead of science.
(b) When the patient exercises free will and chooses loyalty to the Enemy.
(c) When the patient exercises free will.
(d) When the patient accepts that the Enemy exists.

5. When is Wormwood close to winning the soul of the patient in a faction?
(a) When the patient faction links with other factions.
(b) When factions become violent toward others.
(c) When the patient comes to believe the faction is part of the religion.
(d) When the number of souls in a faction is extremely large.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What should Wormwood do to encourage snappishness and increase aggravations?

3. Why is a major sin by the patient not always helpful?

4. What will cause a person to retreat from the Enemy into the darkness of Nothing? .

5. What is the Judaeo-Christian principle that Lewis reinforces?

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