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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Screwtape says the best fiend work is done this way.
(a) Planting suggestive thoughts during a patient's idle moments.
(b) Keeping things out of the mind rather than planting things within it.
(c) Encouraging the patient to hold God accountable.
(d) Reviewing his fantasies while the patient rests.

2. When does humor always work toward a destructive purpose?
(a) When humor mocks the Enemy.
(b) When humor mocks worldly matters.
(c) When humor involves only family members.
(d) When humor involves a lack of chastity.

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

4. What is the role of the language department of Hell?
(a) Promote bad news items to create anxiety.
(b) Suggest meaningless jargon.
(c) Promote good news items to provoke jealousy.
(d) Corrupt the meaning of a word, thereby corrupting the idea.

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

6. The Enemy consistently helps the patient in which of these situations?
(a) Calm for imagined fears and hypotheticals.
(b) Present and actual suffering.
(c) Imagined daily slights and insults.
(d) Grief and sadness.

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

8. Screwtape tells Wormwood to train the patient about prayer.
(a) The best prayers are personal imaginings about God.
(b) The best prayers are measured by the feelings produced.
(c) The best prayers are built upon childhood parrot-like repetition.
(d) The best prayers are measured by review of personal possessions.

9. Screwtape tells Wormwood it is best if patient avoids this.
(a) All inclinations to pray.
(b) Financial support of missionary works.
(c) Visions of Scripture re-enactments.
(d) Church attendance other than Sunday.

10. According to Screwtape, which is the better way for a patient to die?
(a) Tragic accident shocking to family and friends.
(b) In a nursing home among lying doctors, lying nurses, and lying friends.
(c) Anonymously in an action of war.
(d) Quietly at home, without prayer.

11. What does it indicate when a person is continually church shopping?
(a) The person does not understand the nature of humanity.
(b) The person is looking for virtues.
(c) The person is looking at churches with criticism and dissatisfaction.
(d) The person is gaining deeper understanding of the Enemy.

12. What does Screwtape describe as the only useful thing about war?
(a) War brings souls to Our Father Below.
(b) War separates and destroys families.
(c) War usually leads to more future wars.
(d) War brings fear and anxiety to humans.

13. What will cause a person to retreat from the Enemy into the darkness of Nothing? .
(a) Opposition by family and friends.
(b) Repetition of sexual perversions
(c) Repetition of major sins.
(d) Accumulation of many small sins.

14. Why should Wormwood draw the patient's attention to his humility?
(a) Humility discourages self-examination.
(b) Pride sets in almost immediately when a person thinks he is humble.
(c) Humility befuddles the mind of the patient.
(d) Humility encourages belief in modern jargon.

15. Why is false humility good for the fiend's cause?
(a) False humility is preoccupation with self.
(b) False humility feeds the emotions.
(c) False humility is an insult to the Enemy.
(d) False humility leads to sinfulness.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Screwtape, what is typical thinking for a new Christian?

2. Why does Screwtape favor prayer for the soul?

3. Why does Screwtape want people totally obsessed with the future?

4. Why is it best to discourage belief in fiends?

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

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