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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) A peaceful death.
(d) Consistent spiritual pains.

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

3. How should Wormwood try to portray Christianity?
(a) A cult with an absent leader.
(b) A massive group of befuddled people.
(c) A committee of clueless volunteers
(d) A mystery religion known only to the select.

4. What does Screwtape say is the outcome of a person thinking time is their own?
(a) Exasperation and impatience when "his/her" time is impinged upon.
(b) Entitlement to prevail upon the time of another.
(c) Laziness and wasting of time.
(d) Lack of focus and procrastination.

5. 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.

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

7. What preference by God does Screwtape view as nonsense?
(a) Unity in diversity, such as male and female as one flesh.
(b) Sexual intercourse creates a temporary bond.
(c) Multiple sexual acts should always be repented.
(d) Sexual intercourse is reserved for mature adults only.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. What aspect about humans concerning change has always been useful to devils?
(a) Resistance to change.
(b) Restlessness for change.
(c) Acceptance of change.
(d) Alternating change.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Lewis contend scholars are the least likely to learn from thinkers of the past?

3. How do devils use the media concerning female desirability?

4. What does Screwtape identify as a disadvantage for devils?

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

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