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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the worst outcome for the fiend when a patient awakens to self and renewal?
(a) Realizes thoughts and emotions are more important than actions.
(b) Realizes sin has to be overcome to avoid Hell.
(c) Realizes others are the source of his sinfulness.
(d) Realizes the true self of a human belongs to God.

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

3. 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) Happy is not a natural human condition.
(d) The patient may become permanently happy.

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

5. What does Screwtape see as one advantage of church?
(a) Church is inconvenient.
(b) Church can become a mindless habit.
(c) Church can become routine and boring.
(d) Church can be made rife with factionalism.

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

7. Why is it best to discourage belief in fiends?
(a) Belief by patients leads to fiend failure
(b) Non-belief makes a patient lazy and unimaginative.
(c) Non-belief makes it easier to believe in materialism.
(d) Belief makes fiends lazy and unimaginative.

8. How should Wormwood encourage the patient to think concerning humility?
(a) Humility always gains favor with the worldly.
(b) Humility means agreeing with the sinful opinion of others.
(c) Humility can mask the patient's sinfulness.
(d) Humility means self-denigration and denial of one's talents.

9. Screwtape says humans living together will develop which of these over time?
(a) Contradictory love and hate feelings.
(b) Spiritual awareness of the other.
(c) Dependency about practical life matters.
(d) Voice tones and facials that irritate.

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

11. What are heavenly pleasures that reflect love of friends and family for one another?
(a) Food and drink.
(b) Joy and fun.
(c) Attendance at church together.
(d) Travels together on vacations.

12. 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) Jokes about the Enemy and his servants.
(d) Find fault with all types of humor.

13. Why are factions to be encouraged by fiends?
(a) Factions foster pride and hatred.
(b) Factions draw people away from the Enemy.
(c) Factions divide families and friends.
(d) Factions suppress positive thinking.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does St. Paul suggest others should submit to those with rigid opinions concerning church details?

3. Screwtape describes this as one of a fiend's best weapons.

4. Why is Wormwood told "living in the future" is preferable to living in the now.

5. What does Lewis say is the modern fiend's methods of temptation?

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