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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. When is Wormwood close to winning the soul of the patient in a faction?
(a) When the patient faction links with other factions.
(b) When factions become violent toward others.
(c) When the patient comes to believe the faction is part of the religion.
(d) When the number of souls in a faction is extremely large.

2. Why are sincere likings tools of the Enemy? . •
(a) Sincere likings bond the person to the Enemy.
(b) Sincere likings nourish the soul.
(c) Sincere likings seldom change over time.
(d) Sincere likings make the person true to himself or herself.

3. What is Screwtape's description of the safest road to Hell?
(a) Regular opportunities for sexual liaisons
(b) Total disbelief in fiends.
(c) A gentle slope without turns, milestones, or signposts.
(d) Family and friends that enable a person

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

5. What is the means to allow awakening in the patient?
(a) Rejection of materialistic mindset.
(b) Stillness of the soul.
(c) Repentance of all major sins.
(d) Overcoming small, bad habits.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Screwtape see as one advantage of church?

2. How should the fiend encourage the patient to think about malice and benevolence?

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

4. Why should Wormwood attack immediately if the patient is happily living in the present?

5. What does the Enemy view as true loyalty?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Lewis say about a person's present day morality and responsibilities?

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

8. Wormwood sees a dry spell in the patient's faith as a totally positive development. Why does Screwtape see this as a shortcoming of Wormwood's training and not necessarily a positive?

9. 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?

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

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