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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Screwtape want people totally obsessed with the future?
(a) Proves the future does not really exist.
(b) Provides the best conditions for future sinfulness.
(c) Creates unhappiness and dissatisfaction in the here and now.
(d) Manipulates future outcomes.

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

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

4. How does Screwtape think about the patient's mind?
(a) Separated compartments with the will as the smallest.
(b) Concentric circles with the will as the innermost.
(c) Pyramid shape with the will as the base.
(d) Several layers with the will as the largest.

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

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

7. 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 the true self of a human belongs to God.
(d) Realizes others are the source of his sinfulness.

8. What is the means to allow awakening in the patient?
(a) Stillness of the soul.
(b) Overcoming small, bad habits.
(c) Rejection of materialistic mindset.
(d) Repentance of all major sins.

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

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

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

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

13. What is the goal of true humility?
(a) To turn the person's attention to all sinfulness.
(b) To guarantee salvation of the soul.
(c) To guarantee God is pleased.
(d) To turn the person's attention to God and others.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why should Wormwood draw the patient's attention to his humility?

2. When is Wormwood close to winning the soul of the patient in a faction?

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

4. What does it indicate when a person is continually church shopping?

5. What does the thought 'religion is all very well up to a point' lead to?

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