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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Screwtape instruct Wormwood to use the horrors of war?
(a) Use the scenes of horror to induce cowardice.
(b) Let humans think that only horror is real, goodness and beauty are not equally real.
(c) Use the scenes of horror to provke anger toward God.
(d) Use the horror that happens to create hateful thoughts of more horror.

4. What does Screwtape suggest to Wormwood if God does answer a prayer?
(a) Explain that what happened would have happened anyway.
(b) Remind that God tests His people constantly.
(c) Recall the many instances prayer was not answered.
(d) Remind of people throughout history that prayed in vain.

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

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

7. 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.

8. What is Screwtape's view of the patient's new girl?
(a) She is a sexual pervert who will be a good match.
(b) She is dimwitted and easily manipulated.
(c) She is a sincere Christian that in the old days would have been fed to the lions.
(d) She is of loose character and morals.

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

10. What pernicious things does Lewis say can claim a soul away from God?
(a) Charity and good intentions to the point of obsession.
(b) A lifetime of prosperity and worldliness.
(c) Choice of unsuitable friends and habits.
(d) Abandonment of positive thoughts and hopes.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what animal does Screwtape compare the patient concerning knowledge versus likings?

2. What does Screwtape describe as Wormwood's fate now that the struggle is over?

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

4. Why is sexual perversion a useful tool for the fiend?

5. How does Lewis explain the way to recognize what is not real virtue?

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