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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Lewis contend scholars are the least likely to learn from thinkers of the past?
(a) Scholars rarely ask if the content is true and befuddle themselves with contexts and categories.
(b) Scholars understand things only from one aspect of training.
(c) The public expects scholars to discover newness in the old and the known.
(d) Scholars confuse each other.

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

3. What does Screwtape recommend to undermine human courage?
(a) Befuddle the thinking with imaginings of super-hero action.
(b) Provide graphic illusions of violence and death.
(c) Provoke the thinking there is also something more than courage to fall back on.
(d) Provide thoughts of a tranquil future if current crisis is avoided.

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

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

6. What does Screwtape advise as war nears the man's home town?
(a) Undermine courage in the man because it is the forge point of all virtues.
(b) Encourage the man to reckless selfishness.
(c) Encourage the man to hate all humanity.
(d) Encourage the man not to resist, rely upon the Enemy.

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

8. What virtue does Screwtape suggest will be lacking in the patient because of his new friends?
(a) Humility.
(b) Forgiveness.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Love.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Screwtape's suggestion for dividing the patient from the girl and friends?

2. What does Screwtape say the Enemy claims is unselfishness?

3. As a result of devilish influence, what do people think about "falling in love"?

4. What does Screwtape again need to remind Wormwood about the war?

5. Why does Screwtape advise that unselfishness is fertile ground for marital strife?

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