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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. What are the best sort of jokes?
(a) Jokes about churchgoers.
(b) Jokes about sex.
(c) Jokes about science.
(d) Jokes that excuse acts of cruelty or cowardice.

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

3. Why does St. Paul suggest others should submit to those with rigid opinions concerning church details?
(a) This is part of God's trials.
(b) To oppose others is not Christian.
(c) This is part of Christian charity.
(d) To dissent is to divide.

4. When does humor always work toward a destructive purpose?
(a) When humor mocks worldly matters.
(b) When humor involves a lack of chastity.
(c) When humor mocks the Enemy.
(d) When humor involves only family members.

5. How does Screwtape describe the composition of a human?
(a) Untamed willful creature of passions.
(b) Constant inclination to comfort and materialism.
(c) Half spirit and half animal.
(d) Dull to the senses, awaiting stimulation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Screwtape want people totally obsessed with the future?

2. Why is it best to discourage belief in fiends?

3. Screwtape says humans living together will develop which of these over time?

4. Why should a fiend never use science?

5. What is the mindset that discourages belief that fiends exist?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Screwtape tell Wormwood it is good for the patient to pray for his mother's soul?

2. What is a central theme Lewis is emphasizing in the context of dry spells of faith?

3. Why does Screwtape encourage Wormwood to play upon the man's disappointment with his fellow churchgoers?

4. Why does Screwtape tell Wormwood the details of the war in progress are of no interest?

5. Screwtape tells Wormwood he can possibly win the battle for the man's soul by getting him to join a faction, any faction. How is this possible?

6. What does Screwtape explain about the dynamics of a person who is church shopping?

7. How does Screwtape suggest the use of pleasure, which clearly is from and belongs to God?

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

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

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

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