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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Lewis, when should a person be uncritical of other Christians' practices?
(a) When the practices involve the Enemy.
(b) When the practices do not involve actual sin.
(c) When the practices are time consuming and demanding.
(d) When the practices are similar to the church a person attends.

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

3. How can a fiend best use pleasures the patient experiences?
(a) Suggest less of the same to create tension.
(b) Encourage regret and resentment.
(c) Suggest more of the same to the point of overindulgence.
(d) Encourage forbidden uses of pleasure.

4. What does Screwtape believe to be an elementary fact?
(a) Humans are incapable of setting and keeping goals.
(b) Humans can be easily misled.
(c) Humans always at some point distrust the Enemy.
(d) Humans tend to become whatever they pretend to be.

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

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

7. Why should a fiend never use science?
(a) Science changes over time.
(b) Science is too difficult to understand.
(c) Science has too many sub-sections.
(d) Science prompts a person to think.

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

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

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

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

12. When does humor always work toward a destructive purpose?
(a) When humor mocks worldly matters.
(b) When humor mocks the Enemy.
(c) When humor involves a lack of chastity.
(d) When humor involves only family members.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name that issues policy for fiends?

2. What does Screwtape think is the true danger about wars?

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

4. What is the mindset that discourages belief that fiends exist?

5. What does Lewis think makes a person slave to the appetites?

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