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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the pleasures that awaken the patient to repentance?
(a) Reading a book and taking a walk.
(b) Dinners with the family.
(c) Reunions with old friends.
(d) Helping with church projects.

2. What is the law of Undulation?
(a) The human mindset often follows the seasonal changes.
(b) The life of a human is a series of peaks and troughs.
(c) Humans usually forget things, then repeat those same actions.
(d) Good times are always followed by regret.

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

4. What have the Enemy's servants taught for 2000 years as the greatest temptation?
(a) Worldliness
(b) Pride
(c) Science
(d) Sex

5. Why does St. Paul suggest others should submit to those with rigid opinions concerning church details?
(a) This is part of Christian charity.
(b) To dissent is to divide.
(c) To oppose others is not Christian.
(d) This is part of God's trials.

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

7. What is the doctrine almost all humans profess but find difficult to accept?
(a) Talent is not created by a human, but a gift from God.
(b) God directs human memory.
(c) Sinfulness is seldom extreme.
(d) All wrongs can be fixed.

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

9. How should Wormwood try to develop permanent deceit in the patient?
(a) Participate in church affairs and worldly affairs at the same time.
(b) Convince the patient that the more science he knows the better.
(c) Encourage self-perception as a complex person superior to others.
(d) Avoid church going people.

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

11. How does the Enemy want the patient to view the future?
(a) As a logical outcome of the present.
(b) As unrelated to the past.
(c) As part of eternity.
(d) As unrelated to the present.

12. What is the mindset that discourages belief that fiends exist?
(a) All things can be explained by science.
(b) Disbelief in all spiritual matters, good and bad.
(c) The Enemy has totally conquered all fiends.
(d) Fiends cannot exist in a materialistic world.

13. Why does Screwtape favor prayer for the soul?
(a) The soul becomes imaginary, the prayed for person becomes less real.
(b) Excessive prayer without results discourages the patient.
(c) Prayer for the soul distracts from reality.
(d) Prayer for the soul cannot be measured, totally wasted.

14. Which type of prayer pleases the Enemy the most?
(a) Prayer during periods of spiritual dryness.
(b) Prayer during bereavement or loss of goods.
(c) Prayer directed against fiends.
(d) Prayer of thanks during good times.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes the fiend's job easier?

2. How can a fiend best use pleasures the patient experiences?

3. What does Screwtape say is the modern version of gluttony?

4. Why is subtly by degrees Screwtape's preferred method of temptation?

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

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