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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Screwtape think it is best not to have a person die young?
(a) Young souls in Hell are not very interesting.
(b) Life short in years precludes using the devil's best tactics.
(c) Life short in years gives the devil less to work with.
(d) Disappointments in life and fatigue of fighting the same temptations best prepare a person for Hell.

2. What does Lewis think slowed twentieth century progress and thereby helped Hell?
(a) Advances of Christianity in heathen territories.
(b) Unchecked appetites for worldliness and goods.
(c) Increased human tolerance in sexual matters.
(d) Socialism, communism, and Nazism.

3. How does Screwtape see the usefulness of The Same Old Thing?
(a) Humans resist changes, makes devil work is easier.
(b) Humans see sameness as stagnation, constantly seek change.
(c) Humans think change for the sake of change is always best.
(d) Humans fear change, makes devil work is easier.

4. What is the key point Screwtape tells about time?
(a) People do not truly understand time and how to use it.
(b) Nobody really knows what time it is.
(c) Time is a silly measure invented by mankind.
(d) Time is a gift to be used in the service of God.

5. What does Screwtape say about cowardice?
(a) Humans always try to label true cowardice as something else.
(b) Most humans do not recognize what is true cowardice.
(c) Cowardice is a natural human trait instilled at birth.
(d) Every human feels genuine shame about cowardice.

6. What does Lewis label the greatest sin of the age?
(a) Lack of agreement about the reasons societies decline.
(b) Lack of goals and visions of improvements.
(c) Allowing senseless ideas and groups to flourish.
(d) Factional divisions and hatred among Christians.

7. How does Lewis deal with the idea of fearful feelings?
(a) Fearful feelings always lead to cowardice.
(b) Fearful feelings are not serious unless they result in acts of cowardice.
(c) Fearful feelings always befuddle human thinking.
(d) Fearful feelings are not natural to humans.

8. What makes Screwtape especially angry about the couple?
(a) They hold no secrets from one another.
(b) They openly express love of God.
(c) They expect and are planning for happiness in marriage.
(d) They feel sexual attraction to each other, and God approves of it.

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

10. How does Lewis view the effects of democracy?
(a) Democracy will always yield weak leaders.
(b) Democracy will always yield strong leaders.
(c) Democracy elevates the living standard of all.
(d) Democracy encourages equality and sameness, so everyone can feel comfortable and equal.

11. What is Screwtape's depiction of Hell?
(a) Hell is a place where the superior consume the weak and inferior.
(b) Hell is a place where human tormentors in life become the victims.
(c) Hell is a place where the flawed humans constantly repeat lies.
(d) Hell is a place of unending cruelty toward the weakest.

12. Why is sexual perversion a useful tool for the fiend?
(a) Sexual perversion diverts a person's thinking about sexuality within marriage.
(b) God tolerates sexual perversion.
(c) Sexual perversion breeds distrust.
(d) Sexual perversion is fun and satisfying.

13. What is it that Lewis warns undermines courage and perseverance?
(a) Mental escape hatches that provide an "out."
(b) Concern about the opinions of others.
(c) Prior instances of cowardice.
(d) An untested belief in the ability to act the hero.

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

15. What does Screwtape remind Wormwood is most important about the war?
(a) How humans are disrupted is most important.
(b) How many Christians abandon their faith.
(c) How humans behave is most important.
(d) How many Christians are killed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Screwtape again need to remind Wormwood about the war?

2. How does Lewis explain the way to recognize what is not real virtue?

3. What does Screwtape advise as war nears the man's home town?

4. What is the goal of marrying off a patient to an unsuitable partner?

5. What does Screwtape recommend to undermine human courage?

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