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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 should Wormwood draw the patient's attention to his humility?
(a) Pride sets in almost immediately when a person thinks he is humble.
(b) Humility encourages belief in modern jargon.
(c) Humility befuddles the mind of the patient.
(d) Humility discourages self-examination.

2. How should Wormwood try to develop permanent deceit in the patient?
(a) Participate in church affairs and worldly affairs at the same time.
(b) Encourage self-perception as a complex person superior to others.
(c) Convince the patient that the more science he knows the better.
(d) Avoid church going people.

3. How does Screwtape describe the composition of a human?
(a) Constant inclination to comfort and materialism.
(b) Untamed willful creature of passions.
(c) Half spirit and half animal.
(d) Dull to the senses, awaiting stimulation.

4. What is the doctrine almost all humans profess but find difficult to accept?
(a) God directs human memory.
(b) Talent is not created by a human, but a gift from God.
(c) Sinfulness is seldom extreme.
(d) All wrongs can be fixed.

5. How does Screwtape think about the patient's mind?
(a) Several layers with the will as the largest.
(b) Separated compartments with the will as the smallest.
(c) Concentric circles with the will as the innermost.
(d) Pyramid shape with the will as the base.

Short Answer Questions

1. When is Wormwood close to winning the soul of the patient in a faction?

2. Which type of prayer pleases the Enemy the most?

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

4. What makes the fiend's job easier?

5. When does sex work best in the fiend's favor?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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?

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

5. Screwtape tells Wormwood the English people are hateful in the abstract but kindly in the concrete. How does he suggest Wormwood use this information regarding the patient?

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

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

8. Although Lewis talks about food and drink, what is the eternal truth contained in the message?

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

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

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