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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Lewis deal with the idea of fearful feelings?
(a) Fearful feelings are not natural to humans.
(b) Fearful feelings are not serious unless they result in acts of cowardice.
(c) Fearful feelings always befuddle human thinking.
(d) Fearful feelings always lead to cowardice.

5. What is the key point Screwtape tells about time?
(a) Nobody really knows what time it is.
(b) Time is a silly measure invented by mankind.
(c) Time is a gift to be used in the service of God.
(d) People do not truly understand time and how to use it.

6. What does Screwtape identify as lacking in the current menu of sinners?
(a) The young are dying before the devils can complete their assignments.
(b) Lack of the old and tired, too many are dying young.
(c) Too many are sinning too little due to strengthening Christianity.
(d) Lack of spectacular sinners with huge egos and unlimited cruelties.

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

8. Why is sexual perversion a useful tool for the fiend?
(a) Sexual perversion breeds distrust.
(b) God tolerates sexual perversion.
(c) Sexual perversion is fun and satisfying.
(d) Sexual perversion diverts a person's thinking about sexuality within marriage.

9. 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) Young souls in Hell are not very interesting.
(c) Disappointments in life and fatigue of fighting the same temptations best prepare a person for Hell.
(d) Life short in years gives the devil less to work with.

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

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

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

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

14. How do devils use the media concerning female desirability?
(a) Shift male desire from reality to abstraction.
(b) Display females in suggestive poses.
(c) Display females as sexual objects.
(d) Display females in unflattering images.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lewis think is needed within a marriage?

2. In Lewis's viewpoint, true love in marriage depends heavily upon what?

3. What pernicious things does Lewis say can claim a soul away from God?

4. How do devils divorce humans from the learning of thinkers of the past?

5. What is one main theme Lewis repeatedly asserts?

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