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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lewis summarize the cosmic battle?
(a) The world is equally balanced between good and evil.
(b) God's nature is to create and give; Satan's nature is to plot and steal.
(c) God's forces are angels and the living; Satan's forces are countless fiends.
(d) Good will only triumph through man's actions.

2. Due to devilish ideas, what do people think about sexual satisfaction only through marriage?
(a) Only an uninformed fool would think that.
(b) A truly impossible notion.
(c) A truly distasteful idea.
(d) This might work for very few people.

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

4. How should Wormwood try to portray Christianity?
(a) A massive group of befuddled people.
(b) A cult with an absent leader.
(c) A committee of clueless volunteers
(d) A mystery religion known only to the select.

5. What does Screwtape identify as a disadvantage for devils?
(a) A devil does not have a body to use for sexual temptation.
(b) Devils are incapable of violating the code of Our Father Below.
(c) Devils cannot create pleasure, only twist pleasure that exists.
(d) The prayers of a Christian can destroy much of the devil's work.

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

7. Who are "They" that the patient sees at the same moment Wormwood cannot see?
(a) Virtues.
(b) Life-changing events when angels were present.
(c) Legions of saints smiling and welcoming.
(d) Good spirits that have been helpful throughout the patient's life.

8. To what animal does Screwtape compare the patient concerning knowledge versus likings?
(a) A hunting dog.
(b) A dumb bird.
(c) A clueless snake.
(d) A hungry tiger.

9. What sort of Christian does Screwtape prefer?
(a) Mere Christians.
(b) Uncommitted Christians.
(c) Christians interested in Christianity and something else.
(d) Christians befuddled by Christianity.

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

11. What does Screwtape say the Enemy claims is unselfishness?
(a) Chastity.
(b) Justice.
(c) Charity.
(d) Marital fidelity.

12. What has Screwtape learned in corresponding with Slumtrimpet, the girlfriend's fiend?
(a) She is innocently naïve about any faith or versions except her own.
(b) She sees marriage as an escape from family faith.
(c) She secretly harbors resentment about her faith.
(d) She sees sex to be used as a trap toward marriage.

13. What is it that Lewis warns undermines courage and perseverance?
(a) An untested belief in the ability to act the hero.
(b) Concern about the opinions of others.
(c) Prior instances of cowardice.
(d) Mental escape hatches that provide an "out."

14. Why does Lewis think it is a good thing when Christians are aware of their social responsibilities?
(a) They can advance social causes.
(b) They can identify non-believers in social situations.
(c) They will realize that their social and spiritual responsibilities are one and the same.
(d) They will not become confused that their social and spiritual responsibilities are one and the same.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Lewis contend scholars are the least likely to learn from thinkers of the past?

3. What does Wormwood's fate illustrate?

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

5. What does Screwtape remind Wormwood is most important about the war?

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