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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Lewis contend scholars are the least likely to learn from thinkers of the past?
(a) The public expects scholars to discover newness in the old and the known.
(b) Scholars rarely ask if the content is true and befuddle themselves with contexts and categories.
(c) Scholars confuse each other.
(d) Scholars understand things only from one aspect of training.

2. What virtue does Screwtape suggest will be lacking in the patient because of his new friends?
(a) Forgiveness.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Love.
(d) Humility.

3. What does Screwtape suggest to Wormwood if God does not answer a prayer?
(a) Suggest that God is stern and slow to react.
(b) Remind that a person has free will; God is just a bystander.
(c) Asking God for things is absurd because prayer has no impact upon the world.
(d) Suggest that God does not intervene directly in individual lives.

4. What is the Judaeo-Christian principle that Lewis reinforces?
(a) Marrying the wrong woman for the wrong reasons can still lead to happiness.
(b) Sexual intercourse and sexual perversions are not major issues.
(c) Marriage and sexual intercourse are irrevocable acts, not to be entered into lightly at all.
(d) "One flesh" is a discussion topic, not a real teaching.

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

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

7. What does Screwtape advise is the best means to get a person to act cowardly?
(a) Remind the patient of personal shortcomings.
(b) Fill the mind with little escape hatches in advance of the time courage is needed.
(c) Provide historical examples of humans that failed tests of courage.
(d) Instill thoughts of jealousy and envy.

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

9. What does Screwtape describe as Wormwood's fate now that the struggle is over?
(a) He will be given a less challenging patient.
(b) He will be eaten in Hell, where the strong consume the weak.
(c) He will be re-assigned to Training School
(d) He will be assigned to a different member of the same patient's family

10. What is Screwtape's response to whether it is desirable for a patient to be in love?
(a) Neither desirable or undesirable, only useful if it can corrupt.
(b) Always desirable, befuddles the patient.
(c) Always undesirable, provides the patient an ally.
(d) Always undesirable, directs the mind to God.

11. 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) God's nature is to create and give; Satan's nature is to plot and steal.
(d) The world is equally balanced between good and evil.

12. What does Screwtape tell Wormwood is great fodder for quarrels?
(a) One partner being overly sexual.
(b) One partner a spender and one partner a saver.
(c) Each partner trying to be less selfish than the other.
(d) Emphasis on the opinions of friends and relatives.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is upsetting to Screwtape about the sudden demise?

2. Why is sexual perversion a useful tool for the fiend?

3. What does Screwtape become because he is so angry about the girl?

4. What does Lewis think is the key to human dignity?

5. Why does Screwtape think it is best not to have a person die young?

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