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

2. What are the best sort of jokes?
(a) Jokes about sex.
(b) Jokes about science.
(c) Jokes that excuse acts of cruelty or cowardice.
(d) Jokes about churchgoers.

3. What does the thought 'religion is all very well up to a point' lead to?
(a) Sensible strong Christians.
(b) Moderated religion is no religion at all.
(c) Free will can define the limits of religion.
(d) Jargon has no place in religion.

4. When is the fiend's mission in the greatest danger?
(a) When the patient chooses the spiritual instead of science.
(b) When the patient exercises free will and chooses loyalty to the Enemy.
(c) When the patient exercises free will.
(d) When the patient accepts that the Enemy exists.

5. What will cause a person to retreat from the Enemy into the darkness of Nothing? .
(a) Repetition of major sins.
(b) Accumulation of many small sins.
(c) Opposition by family and friends.
(d) Repetition of sexual perversions

Short Answer Questions

1. What is always the primary goal of a fiend?

2. According to Screwtape, which old wisdom is mostly dismissed in the modern world?

3. What does Lewis say is the modern fiend's methods of temptation?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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