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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lewis suggest the modern person avoid gluttony?
(a) Satisfy the appetites after departing from others.
(b) Take what is offered with humility and gratitude.
(c) Diet constantly, consume very little.
(d) Satisfy the appetites before joining others.

2. What does the thought 'religion is all very well up to a point' lead to?
(a) Moderated religion is no religion at all.
(b) Free will can define the limits of religion.
(c) Jargon has no place in religion.
(d) Sensible strong Christians.

3. What does the Enemy view as true loyalty?
(a) Contentment about His power to prevail.
(b) Rejection of science in favor of the spiritual.
(c) Adherence to faith during trying times.
(d) Faith amid materialism.

4. What does Screwtape think is the true danger about wars?
(a) Occupies people's minds, making distraction difficult.
(b) Diverts people from themselves to perceived higher values and causes.
(c) Creates heroes and legends people will believe.
(d) Resolves differences among enemies.

5. What does Screwtape believe to be an elementary fact?
(a) Humans are incapable of setting and keeping goals.
(b) Humans can be easily misled.
(c) Humans always at some point distrust the Enemy.
(d) Humans tend to become whatever they pretend to be.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will cause a person to retreat from the Enemy into the darkness of Nothing? .

2. Why does Screwtape distrust church in general?

3. According to Screwtape, which old wisdom is mostly dismissed in the modern world?

4. Why does St. Paul suggest others should submit to those with rigid opinions concerning church details?

5. When does humor least serve the fiend's mission?

Short Essay Questions

1. Relating to religious bodies, what does Screwtape say has proven very useful for producing malice over the centuries?

2. Lewis elaborates on the traditional version of gluttony as over-consumption of food or drink. What does he describe as the modern forms of gluttony and its effects?

3. Why does Screwtape think it is not favorable when a person does not care what others think?

4. Screwtape instructs that not all humor is useful to a devil, but certain types are especially useful. What are the types of humor useful to a devil?

5. Why does Screwtape so heartily approve of the man's new friends that are bright, funny, skeptical, wealthy, and worldly?

6. Although Lewis talks about food and drink, what is the eternal truth contained in the message?

7. Why does Screwtape tell Wormwood war is not necessarily always a good thing?

8. Why does Screwtape caution Wormwood that innocent laughter of joy and fun is not good for the devils?

9. Lewis asserts that dry spells in faith are an excellent time to tempt the man with sex? Why is sex especially useful to a devil during such times?

10. Screwtape explains it is good to have a person develop a false and low opinion of God- given talent and likewise have a person regularly think of past sinfulness. How does Screwtape explain this as contrary to God's plans?

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