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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 does Lewis contend scholars are the least likely to learn from thinkers of the past?
(a) The public expects scholars to discover newness in the old and the known.
(b) Scholars confuse each other.
(c) Scholars understand things only from one aspect of training.
(d) Scholars rarely ask if the content is true and befuddle themselves with contexts and categories.

2. How do devils use the media concerning female desirability?
(a) Display females in suggestive poses.
(b) Display females in unflattering images.
(c) Shift male desire from reality to abstraction.
(d) Display females as sexual objects.

3. How does Lewis describe the similarity of birth and death?
(a) Pain followed by rejoicing.
(b) A person has to do both alone.
(c) Two interruptions in the world of pure spirit.
(d) A person cannot remember either occurrence.

4. What does Lewis think slowed twentieth century progress and thereby helped Hell?
(a) Socialism, communism, and Nazism.
(b) Unchecked appetites for worldliness and goods.
(c) Advances of Christianity in heathen territories.
(d) Increased human tolerance in sexual matters.

5. What does Screwtape recommend to undermine human courage?
(a) Provoke the thinking there is also something more than courage to fall back on.
(b) Provide thoughts of a tranquil future if current crisis is avoided.
(c) Provide graphic illusions of violence and death.
(d) Befuddle the thinking with imaginings of super-hero action.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Screwtape offer Wormwood as proof that God is vulgar?

2. What does Screwtape say is the Enemy's standard about sexual matters?

3. What does Lewis remind is a reliable road to Hell?

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

5. What does Screwtape say is the end result of the devil's Historical Point of View?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Screwtape say it is always a good tactic to use Christianity as a means to an end?

2. Why does Screwtape encourage Wormwood to have the couple sacrifice and be "unselfish" toward each other?

3. The Bible, taught as the Word of God, describes marriage and sexual union as "one flesh", an irrevocable act, and teaches against divorce. What elements does Lewis state work against this classic Judaeo-Christian position?

4. How does Screwtape explain that living long and dying old is better for the devils than for a person to die young?

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

6. 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?

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

8. Screwtape advises that humans have absurd ideas about time. How does he explain the absurdities to Wormwood?

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

10. According to Lewis, what is required to sustain a marriage because sexual attraction is simply not enough?

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