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

2. What does Screwtape say is the modern version of gluttony?
(a) Close attention to dieting even at the inconvenience of others.
(b) Excess consumption of liquor at mealtime.
(c) Excess consumption of desserts at mealtime.
(d) Taking food away from the serving table in "doggy bags."

3. What makes the fiend's job easier?
(a) When a person is concerned with what to do, not what to think.
(b) When a person resents what has already happened, not what to do presently.
(c) When a person is concerned with what to do, regardless of what happens.
(d) When a person is concerned with what might happen, not with what to do.

4. Why should Wormwood attack immediately if the patient is happily living in the present?
(a) The Enemy always helps happy people.
(b) Happy is not a natural human condition.
(c) The patient may become permanently happy.
(d) The patient has no right to be happy.

5. What does Screwtape think is the true danger about wars?
(a) Diverts people from themselves to perceived higher values and causes.
(b) Creates heroes and legends people will believe.
(c) Resolves differences among enemies.
(d) Occupies people's minds, making distraction difficult.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of friendships should Wormwood encourage to the patient?

3. According to Screwtape, what is typical thinking for a new Christian?

4. How does Screwtape think about the patient's mind?

5. Screwtape says the best fiend work is done this way.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Screwtape explain that false humility can be useful to a devil, but true humility can be dangerous?

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

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