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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Screwtape label as fashionable Christianity?
(a) Christianity concerned with passing trends and fads.
(b) Christianity devoted only to social justice.
(c) Christianity devoted only to ending war.
(d) Christianity devoted only to any single subject.

2. What does Screwtape remind Wormwood is most important about the war?
(a) How humans are disrupted is most important.
(b) How many Christians are killed.
(c) How many Christians abandon their faith.
(d) How humans behave is most important.

3. What is the point Lewis is making with the quotation "Experience is the mother of illusion"?
(a) There is no truth because everything is an illusion.
(b) Relying on personal experience can bind a person to their mistakes.
(c) God allows humans to experience emotion.
(d) God's purpose of human free will is to create illusion.

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

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

6. What is Screwtape's suggestion for dividing the patient from the girl and friends?
(a) Suggest spirituality has no place in modern life.
(b) Provoke political disagreements as to how to apply faith to social realities.
(c) Provoke political disagreements as to how to apply social realities to faith.
(d) Suggest faith is merely a social custom.

7. What does Screwtape tell Wormwood is an excellent way to stop human prayer?
(a) Raise doubts that asking God for things is appropriate at all.
(b) Raise doubts that God exists.
(c) Emphasize unfairness of life.
(d) Emphasize the successes of dishonesty.

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

9. What is one of Screwtape's favorite tricks concerning Christianity?
(a) Suggest Christianity is a mind-numbing drug.
(b) Make Christianity a means to an end, thereby creating unattainable mental notions.
(c) Propose Christianity exists only to comfort the weak.
(d) Suggest Christianity is learned in childhood and is a childish idea.

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

11. 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 itself is secondary to how people act during a war.
(d) War provides opportunity to create heroes.

12. What does Lewis advise is the outcome of lack of commitment to important matters?
(a) A life of befuddled underachievement.
(b) Strong possibility of failure.
(c) A life lived mostly free of stress.
(d) Strong possibility of worldly success.

13. What does Wormwood's fate illustrate?
(a) Inexperience has a steep price.
(b) It is eat or be eaten in a world run by Hell.
(c) Success matters, all else is only steps on a road.
(d) Constant schooling and reminding are necessary for life.

14. Why does Screwtape think it is best not to have a person die young?
(a) Life short in years gives the devil less to work with.
(b) Disappointments in life and fatigue of fighting the same temptations best prepare a person for Hell.
(c) Young souls in Hell are not very interesting.
(d) Life short in years precludes using the devil's best tactics.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lewis label the greatest sin of the age?

2. What do life happenings provide for every person according to Lewis?

3. What does Screwtape say about cowardice?

4. What preference by God does Screwtape view as nonsense?

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

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