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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the one thing a human struggles with that can lessen with age and help the devils?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Chastity.
(d) Perseverance.

5. What does Lewis remind is a reliable road to Hell?
(a) Dramatic sins followed by early death.
(b) The long, slow, slippery slope.
(c) The lack of prayer.
(d) The lack of response to prayers to God.

6. What does Lewis think is needed within a marriage?
(a) Prayerfulness.
(b) Effort by free will to form faith and virtues.
(c) Denial of free will in favor of harmony.
(d) Openness to criticism.

7. What is the name of the illustrated booklet for Wormwood enclosed with letter #22?
(a) Secrets of Sex from Screwtape.
(b) The Devil Chain of Command.
(c) The Many Reasons God Is The Loser.
(d) House of Correction for Incompetent Tempters.

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

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

10. Focusing upon impossible ideals detracts from what?
(a) Marriage for the wrong reasons.
(b) Enjoyment of sexual intercourse.
(c) Earthly happiness.
(d) Enjoyment of images of women .

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

12. What is Screwtape's basic idea about human life?
(a) Without sexual intercourse, human life would revert to savagery.
(b) Sexual intercourse is the driving human life force.
(c) Life is cooperation and oneness between separate entities
(d) Life is predatory competition.

13. What does Screwtape recommend to undermine human courage?
(a) Provide graphic illusions of violence and death.
(b) Provide thoughts of a tranquil future if current crisis is avoided.
(c) Provoke the thinking there is also something more than courage to fall back on.
(d) Befuddle the thinking with imaginings of super-hero action.

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

15. What does Lewis advise is the outcome of lack of commitment to important matters?
(a) A life of befuddled underachievement.
(b) Strong possibility of failure.
(c) A life lived mostly free of stress.
(d) Strong possibility of worldly success.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Screwtape's view of the patient's new girl?

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

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

4. What does Screwtape say about cowardice?

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

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