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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 Lewis label the greatest sin of the age?
(a) Lack of goals and visions of improvements.
(b) Lack of agreement about the reasons societies decline.
(c) Allowing senseless ideas and groups to flourish.
(d) Factional divisions and hatred among Christians.

2. What does Screwtape suggest to Wormwood if God does answer a prayer?
(a) Remind of people throughout history that prayed in vain.
(b) Remind that God tests His people constantly.
(c) Recall the many instances prayer was not answered.
(d) Explain that what happened would have happened anyway.

3. What does Screwtape identify as a disadvantage for devils?
(a) Devils are incapable of violating the code of Our Father Below.
(b) The prayers of a Christian can destroy much of the devil's work.
(c) A devil does not have a body to use for sexual temptation.
(d) Devils cannot create pleasure, only twist pleasure that exists.

4. What do life happenings provide for every person according to Lewis?
(a) An occasion to possibly involve sex or perversion.
(b) A chance to find or to advance personal success.
(c) An occasion to come closer to Heaven or to Hell.
(d) A chance to test God.

5. How does Screwtape describe an "infernal Venus"?
(a) A woman who satisfies sexual appetites while making life a living hell.
(b) A woman that reminds a man of his mother.
(c) A woman who makes a man feel sexually inferior.
(d) A woman who does not satisfy sexual needs.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Screwtape instruct Wormwood to take advantage of suffering?

2. What is the one thing a human struggles with that can lessen with age and help the devils?

3. As a result of devilish influence, what do people think about "falling in love"?

4. What is the key point Screwtape tells about time?

5. What should Wormwood do to encourage snappishness and increase aggravations?

Short Essay Questions

1. Lewis explains that in the end either God or Satan will claim a person's time, actions and ultimately the soul? How does each claim ownership in this eternal struggle between God and Satan?

2. Screwtape chastises Wormwood for the unsatisfactory ending of the man. What is the description Lewis provides relative to the entrance into the spiritual realm?

3. Rather than "falling" into anything, what does Lewis see as sensible marriage without influence from Hell and devils?

4. Lewis again demonstrates cutting humor in letter 24 concerning the child who thinks whatever is used in her house is the "normal" one and anything used by the neighbors is "not normal", or the hunting dog who thinks it understands firearms simply because it enjoys hunting with the master. What is the point Lewis is making with these humorous examples?

5. Screwtape chastises Wormwood that he is failing because the man is praying to God. How does Screwtape recommend Wormwood handle this if the man is going to continue to pray?

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

7. What consistent Lewis theme about devil work is woven into Screwtape's specifics about women and love and sex and marriage?

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

9. What does Screwtape reveal to be one of the greatest frustrations of the devils?

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

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