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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letter 31.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Screwtape again need to remind Wormwood about the war?
(a) War provides opportunity to create heroes.
(b) War provides a distraction from attention to God.
(c) War itself is secondary to how people act during a war.
(d) War itself provokes an increase in prayer.

3. Why should Wormwood attack immediately if the patient is happily living in the present?
(a) Happy is not a natural human condition.
(b) The patient may become permanently happy.
(c) The patient has no right to be happy.
(d) The Enemy always helps happy people.

4. What does Screwtape offer Wormwood as proof that God is vulgar?
(a) He makes promises to humans about eternity.
(b) He has filled the world with pleasure.
(c) He created sex for humans.
(d) He killed Himself on a cross.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Screwtape describe as the only useful thing about war?

2. What does Screwtape say is the outcome of a person thinking time is their own?

3. When is the fiend's mission in the greatest danger?

4. What is the point Lewis is making with the quotation "Experience is the mother of illusion"?

5. What is an excellent way to insulate the heart from the Enemy?

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