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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Screwtape suggest is the benefit of theories about the historical Jesus?
(a) Moves the focus from the spiritual on to the political.
(b) So much speculation can be twisted from every theory.
(c) Theories portray Jesus as very ordinary, therefore not from God.
(d) Since little is known, the more theories the better.

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

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

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

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

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

8. What should Wormwood do to encourage snappishness and increase aggravations?
(a) Surround the patient with annoying people.
(b) Regularly remind the patient of previous embarrassments.
(c) Raise the patient's expectations of what life owes to him.
(d) Lower the patient's expectations of what life owes to him.

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

10. How does Screwtape see the usefulness of The Same Old Thing?
(a) Humans fear change, makes devil work is easier.
(b) Humans see sameness as stagnation, constantly seek change.
(c) Humans resist changes, makes devil work is easier.
(d) Humans think change for the sake of change is always best.

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

12. 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 is innocently naïve about any faith or versions except her own.
(d) She sees marriage as an escape from family faith.

13. What aspect about humans concerning change has always been useful to devils?
(a) Resistance to change.
(b) Alternating change.
(c) Acceptance of change.
(d) Restlessness for change.

14. What is a very helpful satanic idea concerning sexual temptation?
(a) Sexual abstention is impossible.
(b) Chastity is unhealthy.
(c) Sexual temptation cannot be wiped away.
(d) The more sexual activity the better.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Screwtape advise is the best means to get a person to act cowardly?

2. Why does Screwtape think it is best not to have a person die young?

3. How does Screwtape describe an "infernal Venus"?

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

5. What virtue does Screwtape suggest will be lacking in the patient because of his new friends?

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