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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do devils use the media concerning female desirability?
(a) Display females as sexual objects.
(b) Shift male desire from reality to abstraction.
(c) Display females in suggestive poses.
(d) Display females in unflattering images.

2. What is a very helpful satanic idea concerning sexual temptation?
(a) Sexual temptation cannot be wiped away.
(b) Chastity is unhealthy.
(c) The more sexual activity the better.
(d) Sexual abstention is impossible.

3. What does Screwtape suggest is the benefit of theories about the historical Jesus?
(a) Moves the focus from the spiritual on to the political.
(b) Theories portray Jesus as very ordinary, therefore not from God.
(c) Since little is known, the more theories the better.
(d) So much speculation can be twisted from every theory.

4. What is one of Screwtape's most preferred strategies about the human mind?
(a) Fixate on intellectual abstractions rather than on temporal and spiritual realities.
(b) Focus on Christianity to the point of overload.
(c) Focus on sexual distractions to the point of overload.
(d) Foster disagreement about minor aspects of life.

5. What does Screwtape tell Wormwood is an excellent way to stop human prayer?
(a) Emphasize unfairness of life.
(b) Emphasize the successes of dishonesty.
(c) Raise doubts that God exists.
(d) Raise doubts that asking God for things is appropriate at all.

6. What is one of Screwtape's favorite tricks concerning Christianity?
(a) Suggest Christianity is a mind-numbing drug.
(b) Propose Christianity exists only to comfort the weak.
(c) Make Christianity a means to an end, thereby creating unattainable mental notions.
(d) Suggest Christianity is learned in childhood and is a childish idea.

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

8. What does Lewis suggest is a person's reward for doing one's duty?
(a) A sense of inner peace throughout life.
(b) A peaceful death.
(c) Consistent spiritual pains.
(d) Seeing and being with God.

9. What does Lewis label Christianity attached only to its own unchanging precepts?
(a) Modern Christianity.
(b) Fashionable Christianity.
(c) Ancient Christianity.
(d) Mere Christianity.

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

11. What does Screwtape identify as lacking in the current menu of sinners?
(a) Lack of spectacular sinners with huge egos and unlimited cruelties.
(b) The young are dying before the devils can complete their assignments.
(c) Lack of the old and tired, too many are dying young.
(d) Too many are sinning too little due to strengthening Christianity.

12. How is God's love viewed from Hell's standpoint?
(a) Devious and selfish, totally incomprehensible and impossible.
(b) A useful concept because people unsuccessfully try to "earn" it.
(c) A useful concept because people tend to reject it.
(d) A fanciful notion with no basis or proof.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Due to devilish ideas, what do people think about sexual satisfaction only through marriage?

2. What preference by God does Screwtape view as nonsense?

3. How does Lewis describe the similarity of birth and death?

4. How does Screwtape describe an "infernal Venus"?

5. According to Screwtape, a person can rightfully claim ownership to __________.

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