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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. Screwtape advises that which of these pairings especially help to barricade the patient mind against the Enemy?
(a) Revenge and nastiness.
(b) Envy and jealousy.
(c) Suspense and anxiety.
(d) Grief and sadness.

2. What is the name that issues policy for fiends?
(a) Most High.
(b) High Command.
(c) Screwtape.
(d) Home Office.

3. What usually brings a person to Hell?
(a) Denial of the existence of the Enemy.
(b) Accumulation of material wealth.
(c) Sexual liaisons and sexual betrayals.
(d) Small betrayals of the true self.

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

5. What is the goal of true humility?
(a) To guarantee God is pleased.
(b) To turn the person's attention to God and others.
(c) To guarantee salvation of the soul.
(d) To turn the person's attention to all sinfulness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the worst outcome for the fiend when a patient awakens to self and renewal?

2. What does Screwtape think is particularly fun about churches?

3. Why is Wormwood told "living in the future" is preferable to living in the now.

4. Why are factions to be encouraged by fiends?

5. Why is the laughter of joy and fun no good to the devils?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. The High Command has decided it is better that devils not reveal themselves. How does Screwtape explain the positive impact of that decision?

3. 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?

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. Screwtape tells Wormwood major serious sin is useful but dangerous because it could lead the man back to God. What does he describe as preferable and much less likely to lead to God?

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

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

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

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

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

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