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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 faith is merely a social custom.
(c) Provoke political disagreements as to how to apply faith to social realities.
(d) Suggest spirituality has no place in modern life.

2. What is the recurrent Lewis theme concerning the devils and reality?
(a) The goal is to divert from present reality to abstract ideas.
(b) Changing to the circumstances can change the reality.
(c) The goal is to divert from the abstract back to reality.
(d) A devil constantly reminds about the unfairness of reality.

3. What does Screwtape tell Wormwood is great fodder for quarrels?
(a) Each partner trying to be less selfish than the other.
(b) One partner a spender and one partner a saver.
(c) Emphasis on the opinions of friends and relatives.
(d) One partner being overly sexual.

4. What does Screwtape say is the Enemy's standard about sexual matters?
(a) Can never be used as an enticement.
(b) Can be controlled by the intellect.
(c) Complete abstinence or complete monogamy.
(d) Constant wariness is required.

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) Without sexual intercourse, human life would revert to savagery.
(d) Life is predatory competition.

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

7. According to Screwtape, a person can rightfully claim ownership to __________.
(a) The soul.
(b) The body.
(c) The time in service to God.
(d) Nothing.

8. What tactics should Wormwood use to help people claim ownership?
(a) Pride and confusion.
(b) Anger and jealousy.
(c) Conceit and ambition.
(d) Envy and resentment.

9. What is an effective tactic to remove people from close encounters with Jesus?
(a) Make Jesus an interesting figure of history.
(b) Suggest expectations of encounters with Jesus is childish.
(c) Suggest Jesus could not have really existed in history.
(d) Point out the lack of modern appearances by Jesus.

10. 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 had simplistic viewpoints.
(c) Suggest the authors fit only to their time and place in history.
(d) Discourage people by making past figures larger than life itself.

11. How does Lewis view the effects of democracy?
(a) Democracy encourages equality and sameness, so everyone can feel comfortable and equal.
(b) Democracy elevates the living standard of all.
(c) Democracy will always yield weak leaders.
(d) Democracy will always yield strong leaders.

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

13. What does Screwtape say about cowardice?
(a) Every human feels genuine shame about cowardice.
(b) Cowardice is a natural human trait instilled at birth.
(c) Most humans do not recognize what is true cowardice.
(d) Humans always try to label true cowardice as something else.

14. How does Screwtape describe an "infernal Venus"?
(a) A woman who does not satisfy sexual needs.
(b) A woman that reminds a man of his mother.
(c) A woman who satisfies sexual appetites while making life a living hell.
(d) A woman who makes a man feel sexually inferior.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Screwtape suggest is the benefit of theories about the historical Jesus?

2. How does Screwtape instruct Wormwood to take advantage of suffering?

3. What is the goal of marrying off a patient to an unsuitable partner?

4. How does Screwtape suggest to use the information he is providing to Wormwood?

5. Due to devilish ideas, what do people think about sexual satisfaction only through marriage?

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