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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are "They" that the patient sees at the same moment Wormwood cannot see?
(a) Virtues.
(b) Life-changing events when angels were present.
(c) Legions of saints smiling and welcoming.
(d) Good spirits that have been helpful throughout the patient's life.

2. How does Lewis summarize the cosmic battle?
(a) The world is equally balanced between good and evil.
(b) God's forces are angels and the living; Satan's forces are countless fiends.
(c) God's nature is to create and give; Satan's nature is to plot and steal.
(d) Good will only triumph through man's actions.

3. What does Screwtape again need to remind Wormwood about the war?
(a) War provides a distraction from attention to God.
(b) War itself is secondary to how people act during a war.
(c) War itself provokes an increase in prayer.
(d) War provides opportunity to create heroes.

4. What does Lewis think is needed within a marriage?
(a) Denial of free will in favor of harmony.
(b) Openness to criticism.
(c) Prayerfulness.
(d) Effort by free will to form faith and virtues.

5. What does Lewis think is required to sustain a marriage?
(a) Forgiveness concerning conflicting views.
(b) Modest views about sexual matters.
(c) Strict rules about selfishness.
(d) Real charity practiced day in and day out.

6. How does Screwtape suggest to use the information he is providing to Wormwood?
(a) Suggest the girl is flawed and not capable of fidelity.
(b) Introduce the serious sin of spiritual pride.
(c) Instill distrust in the patient toward the girl and family.
(d) Instill false pride in the patient about his relationship with the girl.

7. What does Screwtape label as fashionable Christianity?
(a) Christianity devoted only to ending war.
(b) Christianity devoted only to social justice.
(c) Christianity devoted only to any single subject.
(d) Christianity concerned with passing trends and fads.

8. What does Lewis advise is the outcome of lack of commitment to important matters?
(a) Strong possibility of worldly success.
(b) Strong possibility of failure.
(c) A life of befuddled underachievement.
(d) A life lived mostly free of stress.

9. How does Lewis describe the similarity of birth and death?
(a) A person cannot remember either occurrence.
(b) Two interruptions in the world of pure spirit.
(c) Pain followed by rejoicing.
(d) A person has to do both alone.

10. Why does Screwtape advise that unselfishness is fertile ground for marital strife?
(a) Unselfishness can alter a person's thinking.
(b) Unselfishness leads to sexual dysfunction.
(c) A woman thinks it is taking trouble for others, a man thinks it is not giving trouble to others.
(d) There is not any way to define unselfishness.

11. What is upsetting to Screwtape about the sudden demise?
(a) The patient had too much time for preparation.
(b) Wormwood was inattentive and all was lost.
(c) Wormwood failed to ask Screwtape's help at the end.
(d) The patient "got through" without slow suffering plus he immediately recognized the workings of Wormwood.

12. What is one main theme Lewis repeatedly asserts?
(a) Life circumstances do not matter, the response is what matters.
(b) Virtue always dictate the circumstances.
(c) The essence of a life is to improve the circumstances.
(d) Response to circumstances is secondary, circumstances are primary.

13. What is the point Lewis is making with the quotation "Experience is the mother of illusion"?
(a) God allows humans to experience emotion.
(b) God's purpose of human free will is to create illusion.
(c) There is no truth because everything is an illusion.
(d) Relying on personal experience can bind a person to their mistakes.

14. What has Screwtape learned in corresponding with Slumtrimpet, the girlfriend's fiend?
(a) She sees sex to be used as a trap toward marriage.
(b) She is innocently naïve about any faith or versions except her own.
(c) She secretly harbors resentment about her faith.
(d) She sees marriage as an escape from family faith.

15. In Lewis's viewpoint, true love in marriage depends heavily upon what?
(a) Society support.
(b) Sexual intercourse.
(c) Virtues.
(d) Good fortune.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Screwtape's basic idea about human life?

2. What does Screwtape say is the end result of the devil's Historical Point of View?

3. What pernicious things does Lewis say can claim a soul away from God?

4. What tactics should Wormwood use to help people claim ownership?

5. How do devils divorce humans from the learning of thinkers of the past?

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