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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. According to Screwtape, which old wisdom is mostly dismissed in the modern world?
(a) People should actively try to improve upon shortcomings.
(b) People should be prudent about choice of friends and associates.
(c) People should have a consistent savings plan.
(d) Modesty in appearance is always appropriate.

5. What is an excellent way to insulate the heart from the Enemy?
(a) Raunchy jokes about sexual excess.
(b) Flippantly pass off everything as subject matter for jest.
(c) Find fault with all types of humor.
(d) Jokes about the Enemy and his servants.

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

7. What does Lewis say is the modern fiend's methods of temptation?
(a) Create vanities that become excesses of thought or action.
(b) Convince people the old-fashioned concepts are false.
(c) Create a false sense of sophistication about life experiences.
(d) Muddle the essentials of old-fashioned concepts such as gluttony.

8. Why is the laughter of joy and fun no good to the devils?
(a) It can become permanent.
(b) It is related to Heaven.
(c) Creates a longing for more of the same.
(d) Sets a good example to children.

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

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

11. What does a new Christian think about going to church with commonplace neighbors?
(a) Necessary but unpleasant.
(b) Shows humility and condescension.
(c) Gains much favor with God.
(d) The best means to know God's will.

12. Why should patient prayers focus on the spiritual, never the practical?
(a) Eliminates the need to take action by the patient.
(b) Channels his energy on useless dialog with the Enemy.
(c) Practical matters and solutions have no place in prayers.
(d) Keeps attention on what he sees as sins.

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Screwtape say God does not want humans to dwell on their sins?

3. How does Screwtape think about the patient's mind?

4. What are the pleasures that awaken the patient to repentance?

5. According to Screwtape, which is the better way for a patient to die?

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