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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do devils divorce humans from the learning of thinkers of the past?
(a) Suggest the authors had simplistic viewpoints.
(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) Befuddle people by mixing falsehood with history.

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

3. What does Screwtape offer Wormwood as proof that God is vulgar?
(a) He created sex for humans.
(b) He makes promises to humans about eternity.
(c) He has filled the world with pleasure.
(d) He killed Himself on a cross.

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Screwtape advise as war nears the man's home town?
(a) Undermine courage in the man because it is the forge point of all virtues.
(b) Encourage the man to reckless selfishness.
(c) Encourage the man not to resist, rely upon the Enemy.
(d) Encourage the man to hate all humanity.

10. Why does Screwtape advise that unselfishness is fertile ground for marital strife?
(a) A woman thinks it is taking trouble for others, a man thinks it is not giving trouble to others.
(b) There is not any way to define unselfishness.
(c) Unselfishness can alter a person's thinking.
(d) Unselfishness leads to sexual dysfunction.

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

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

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

14. How does Screwtape suggest to use the information he is providing to Wormwood?
(a) Suggest the girl is flawed and not capable of fidelity.
(b) Instill distrust in the patient toward the girl and family.
(c) Introduce the serious sin of spiritual pride.
(d) Instill false pride in the patient about his relationship with the girl.

15. What is Screwtape's depiction of Hell?
(a) Hell is a place of unending cruelty toward the weakest.
(b) Hell is a place where the superior consume the weak and inferior.
(c) Hell is a place where the flawed humans constantly repeat lies.
(d) Hell is a place where human tormentors in life become the victims.

Short Answer Questions

1. What virtue does Screwtape suggest will be lacking in the patient because of his new friends?

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

3. What is it that Lewis warns undermines courage and perseverance?

4. Focusing upon impossible ideals detracts from what?

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

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