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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 are factions to be encouraged by fiends?
(a) Factions foster pride and hatred.
(b) Factions divide families and friends.
(c) Factions suppress positive thinking.
(d) Factions draw people away from the Enemy.

2. What is a reliable tactic to use on a new Christian?
(a) Stir childhood memories of God.
(b) Flit his thinking from Christianity to his neighbors in the pews.
(c) Convince him the world is basically evil.
(d) Convince him the world is basically good.

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

4. According to Screwtape, which is the better way for a patient to die?
(a) Quietly at home, without prayer.
(b) In a nursing home among lying doctors, lying nurses, and lying friends.
(c) Anonymously in an action of war.
(d) Tragic accident shocking to family and friends.

5. What should Wormwood do if the patient begins to think fiends exist?
(a) Suggest a fiend image of something in red tights.
(b) Minimize fiendish activity for a spell.
(c) Suggest the patient converse with the fiends.
(d) Suggest to patient he is losing his mind.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why should a fiend never use science?

2. How does Screwtape describe the composition of a human?

3. What are the best sort of jokes?

4. What are the pleasures that awaken the patient to repentance?

5. What is an excellent way to insulate the heart from the Enemy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. How does Screwtape recommend that Wormwood prevent humans from using their reasoning?

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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