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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do life happenings provide for every person according to Lewis?
(a) An occasion to come closer to Heaven or to Hell.
(b) A chance to find or to advance personal success.
(c) An occasion to possibly involve sex or perversion.
(d) A chance to test God.

2. What is Screwtape's suggestion for dividing the patient from the girl and friends?
(a) Provoke political disagreements as to how to apply faith to social realities.
(b) Suggest faith is merely a social custom.
(c) Suggest spirituality has no place in modern life.
(d) Provoke political disagreements as to how to apply social realities to faith.

3. How do devils divorce humans from the learning of thinkers of the past?
(a) Suggest the authors fit only to their time and place in history.
(b) Befuddle people by mixing falsehood with history.
(c) Discourage people by making past figures larger than life itself.
(d) Suggest the authors had simplistic viewpoints.

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

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

6. What does Screwtape mention is a devil's delight and will consistently provide a good supply of humans?
(a) Human demands that God act according to their wishes.
(b) Christians that hate one another due to denomination or due to ritual differences.
(c) Sexual excesses and perversions.
(d) Hatred and rivalry within the family.

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

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

9. How does Lewis summarize the cosmic battle?
(a) God's nature is to create and give; Satan's nature is to plot and steal.
(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) Good will only triumph through man's actions.

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

11. How does Screwtape suggest sowing seeds of marital discord?
(a) Encourage lustful sexual relations as much as possible.
(b) Encourage each partner to seek outside opinions on private matters.
(c) Encourage each partner to easily and readily sacrifice for the other.
(d) Encourage each partner to be selfish during courtship.

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

13. What does Screwtape become because he is so angry about the girl?
(a) Weepy and morose.
(b) Violent.
(c) A centipede.
(d) Unable to think clearly.

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. What is a common way a religious person is likely to be corrupted?
(a) When history can be shown to justify sin.
(b) When religion becomes a means to an end.
(c) When history does not support religion.
(d) When major sin is viewed as minor sin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a very helpful satanic idea concerning sexual temptation?

2. Why does Screwtape advise that unselfishness is fertile ground for marital strife?

3. How does Lewis deal with the idea of fearful feelings?

4. How is God's love viewed from Hell's standpoint?

5. What does Screwtape advise is the best means to get a person to act cowardly?

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