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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lewis think makes a person slave to the appetites?
(a) Disregard of the opinion of others about consumption.
(b) Vanity about food knowledge and food preparation.
(c) Strong attachment to what goes into the mouth.
(d) Reliance upon dieting.

2. What makes the fiend's job easier?
(a) When a person resents what has already happened, not what to do presently.
(b) When a person is concerned with what to do, not what to think.
(c) When a person is concerned with what to do, regardless of what happens.
(d) When a person is concerned with what might happen, not with what to do.

3. Screwtape describes this as one of a fiend's best weapons.
(a) Materialism.
(b) Envy and jealousy
(c) Contented worldliness.
(d) Fear.

4. Where do the fiends receive training?
(a) Devil's Workshop.
(b) The School.
(c) Training College.
(d) The Fiend Foundation.

5. What is a reliable tactic to use on a new Christian?
(a) Flit his thinking from Christianity to his neighbors in the pews.
(b) Convince him the world is basically good.
(c) Stir childhood memories of God.
(d) Convince him the world is basically evil.

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

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

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

9. What does the Enemy view as true loyalty?
(a) Rejection of science in favor of the spiritual.
(b) Adherence to faith during trying times.
(c) Contentment about His power to prevail.
(d) Faith amid materialism.

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

11. What does Screwtape suggest is a good strategy for ongoing fiend work?
(a) All pleasures should be encouraged as only a phase.
(b) Get the patient to think in terms of phases.
(c) Allow the free will to seek sex perversions as a phase.
(d) Sex should always be overemphasized.

12. How should the fiend encourage the patient to think about malice and benevolence?
(a) Malice toward war leaders, benevolence to people affected by war.
(b) Malice toward those remote and unknown, benevolence toward the neighbors.
(c) Malice toward the neighbors, benevolence toward those remote and unknown.
(d) Malice toward declared enemies of war, benevolence to injured.

13. According to Lewis, when should a person be uncritical of other Christians' practices?
(a) When the practices are time consuming and demanding.
(b) When the practices do not involve actual sin.
(c) When the practices involve the Enemy.
(d) When the practices are similar to the church a person attends.

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

15. Why are sincere likings tools of the Enemy? . •
(a) Sincere likings seldom change over time.
(b) Sincere likings make the person true to himself or herself.
(c) Sincere likings nourish the soul.
(d) Sincere likings bond the person to the Enemy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name that issues policy for fiends?

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

3. What is the means to allow awakening in the patient?

4. What is the goal of true humility?

5. How does Screwtape describe the composition of a human?

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