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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. Why is it best to discourage belief in fiends?
(a) Belief makes fiends lazy and unimaginative.
(b) Non-belief makes a patient lazy and unimaginative.
(c) Belief by patients leads to fiend failure
(d) Non-belief makes it easier to believe in materialism.

2. What does Screwtape think is particularly fun about churches?
(a) To promote similarities among religions, decreasing options.
(b) To create suspicion about neighboring church actions.
(c) To work up hatred between religious bodies based on mere differences in ritual.
(d) To create distractions during church services.

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

4. What does Screwtape suggest is a good strategy for ongoing fiend work?
(a) Sex should always be overemphasized.
(b) All pleasures should be encouraged as only a phase.
(c) Get the patient to think in terms of phases.
(d) Allow the free will to seek sex perversions as a phase.

5. What does Screwtape remind is the real business of a fiend?
(a) Alienate by word and action those closest to the patient.
(b) Constantly develop the patient's life regrets.
(c) Undermine faith and prevent formation of virtue.
(d) Foster anger and resentment.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lewis suggest the modern person avoid gluttony?

2. Why does Screwtape distrust church in general?

3. What is the name that issues policy for fiends?

4. What can be fatal to a fiend's plan for a patient?

5. What is the best ally for a fiend?

Short Essay Questions

1. Lewis writes "...indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts." How does this prose relate to the human condition?

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

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

4. Lewis contends ideas can be corrupted by corrupting the language associated with ideas. For example, what does Screwtape brag about corruption of the word "Puritanism"?

5. Screwtape reminds Wormwood it is always important to focus on a person's feelings. Why are feelings seen to be advantageous to devil work?

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

7. What does Screwtape explain is the advantage to having a person always thinking about the future?

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

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

10. 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?

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