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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. How should Wormwood try to portray Christianity?
(a) A cult with an absent leader.
(b) A mystery religion known only to the select.
(c) A massive group of befuddled people.
(d) A committee of clueless volunteers

2. What does Screwtape suggest to Wormwood if God does not answer a prayer?
(a) Asking God for things is absurd because prayer has no impact upon the world.
(b) Suggest that God does not intervene directly in individual lives.
(c) Remind that a person has free will; God is just a bystander.
(d) Suggest that God is stern and slow to react.

3. How does Screwtape suggest sowing seeds of marital discord?
(a) Encourage lustful sexual relations as much as possible.
(b) Encourage each partner to be selfish during courtship.
(c) Encourage each partner to seek outside opinions on private matters.
(d) Encourage each partner to easily and readily sacrifice for the other.

4. What is one of Screwtape's most preferred strategies about the human mind?
(a) Foster disagreement about minor aspects of life.
(b) Focus on Christianity to the point of overload.
(c) Focus on sexual distractions to the point of overload.
(d) Fixate on intellectual abstractions rather than on temporal and spiritual realities.

5. Who are "They" that the patient sees at the same moment Wormwood cannot see?
(a) Legions of saints smiling and welcoming.
(b) Good spirits that have been helpful throughout the patient's life.
(c) Life-changing events when angels were present.
(d) Virtues.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Lewis's viewpoint, true love in marriage depends heavily upon what?

2. What does Screwtape describe as Wormwood's fate now that the struggle is over?

3. What does Screwtape tell Wormwood is great fodder for quarrels?

4. What does Lewis label Christianity attached only to its own unchanging precepts?

5. How is God's love viewed from Hell's standpoint?

Short Essay Questions

1. Lewis says mental escape hatches undermine people in every endeavor that requires courage and perseverance. What does he mean by this and how do mental escape hatches work?

2. How does Lewis portray the man as representative of humankind?

3. What is Lewis' concluding characterization of the modern age?

4. Why does Screwtape advise Wormwood to focus upon the man's courage?

5. What does Screwtape outline as the strategy for instilling spiritual pride in a human?

6. Why does Lewis think Christians should be alert to their social responsibilities?

7. What does Lewis identify as the outcome of modern restless need for change?

8. Lewis contends scholars cause confusion and the result is wisdom lost. How does Lewis explain his thinking on this?

9. Part of Screwtape's toast at the annual dinner of the Tempters' Training College is an explanation of how Democracy helps devils work. What are the highlights of this help that Democracy provides?

10. What does Lewis describe as the key to success in both the physical and the spiritual sense?

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