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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the best sort of jokes?
(a) Jokes about churchgoers.
(b) Jokes about science.
(c) Jokes that excuse acts of cruelty or cowardice.
(d) Jokes about sex.

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

3. Why does Screwtape advise it is good the new Christian is still going to church?
(a) Keeps him from noticing his faith is slipping away.
(b) Keeps him alert to the sins of fellow churchgoers.
(c) Allows him to think he understands all about the Enemy.
(d) Keeps his focus on empty ritual rather than substance.

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

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

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

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

8. Why does Screwtape distrust church in general?
(a) Church is good for the soul.
(b) Church can encourage the young.
(c) Church can make a person feel happy.
(d) Church brings too many different elements together in harmony.

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

10. 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.

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

12. Why is Wormwood told "living in the future" is preferable to living in the now.
(a) The future cannot be altered by the present.
(b) This removes the patient from doing anything useful or charitable in the present.
(c) The past can be altered through imaginings.
(d) The future is thought to be remote.

13. What does Screwtape think is particularly fun about churches?
(a) To work up hatred between religious bodies based on mere differences in ritual.
(b) To create distractions during church services.
(c) To promote similarities among religions, decreasing options.
(d) To create suspicion about neighboring church actions.

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

15. 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) All wrongs can be fixed.
(c) Sinfulness is seldom extreme.
(d) God directs human memory.

Short Answer Questions

1. Screwtape tells Wormwood it is best if patient avoids this.

2. How does Lewis suggest the modern person avoid gluttony?

3. Why is it preferable to focus the patient's mind on the future?

4. When does humor least serve the fiend's mission?

5. What does Screwtape suggest is a good strategy for ongoing fiend work?

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