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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Avoid church going people.
(d) Encourage self-perception as a complex person superior to others.

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

3. 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.

4. What is Screwtape's description of the safest road to Hell?
(a) Total disbelief in fiends.
(b) A gentle slope without turns, milestones, or signposts.
(c) Regular opportunities for sexual liaisons
(d) Family and friends that enable a person

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

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

7. How does Lewis suggest the modern person avoid gluttony?
(a) Take what is offered with humility and gratitude.
(b) Diet constantly, consume very little.
(c) Satisfy the appetites before joining others.
(d) Satisfy the appetites after departing from others.

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

9. What type of friendships should Wormwood encourage to the patient?
(a) People that have few moral values.
(b) People that are wholly committed churchgoers.
(c) People that have many moral values.
(d) People that are bright, skeptical, wealthy and worldly.

10. 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.

11. What is the wine of fiends to be sipped eternally?
(a) Anguish and bewilderment of the soul of the damned.
(b) The dishonesty of humans.
(c) War and cruelty.
(d) Human habits of indifference and laziness.

12. What is the name that issues policy for fiends?
(a) Home Office.
(b) High Command.
(c) Screwtape.
(d) Most High.

13. What is always the primary goal of a fiend?
(a) To befuddle.
(b) To teach incorrectly.
(c) To create false ideas.
(d) To cause anxiety.

14. Why is a major sin by the patient not always helpful?
(a) Major sin is usually public, lessens impact.
(b) The nature of major sin can vary from person to person.
(c) Serious sin needs to be repeated for full effect.
(d) Awakens the patient to just how lax he has become.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why should a fiend never use science?

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

4. What is the goal of true humility?

5. When does Screwtape think it more advisable that the patient not think about the future?

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