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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 is the law of Undulation?
(a) The human mindset often follows the seasonal changes.
(b) Good times are always followed by regret.
(c) The life of a human is a series of peaks and troughs.
(d) Humans usually forget things, then repeat those same actions.

2. What is the role of the language department of Hell?
(a) Promote good news items to provoke jealousy.
(b) Corrupt the meaning of a word, thereby corrupting the idea.
(c) Suggest meaningless jargon.
(d) Promote bad news items to create anxiety.

3. What does Screwtape see as one advantage of church?
(a) Church is inconvenient.
(b) Church can become routine and boring.
(c) Church can become a mindless habit.
(d) Church can be made rife with factionalism.

4. Screwtape describes this as one of a fiend's best weapons.
(a) Contented worldliness.
(b) Materialism.
(c) Envy and jealousy
(d) Fear.

5. Screwtape tells Wormwood to train the patient about prayer.
(a) The best prayers are built upon childhood parrot-like repetition.
(b) The best prayers are personal imaginings about God.
(c) The best prayers are measured by the feelings produced.
(d) The best prayers are measured by review of personal possessions.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is a reliable tactic to use on a new Christian?

3. What does Screwtape suggest is a good strategy for ongoing fiend work?

4. According to Screwtape, what is typical thinking for a new Christian?

5. Why does Screwtape favor prayer for the soul?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Screwtape explain that false humility can be useful to a devil, but true humility can be dangerous?

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

8. How does Screwtape tell Wormwood to use imaginings now that war is upon the patient?

9. 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?

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

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