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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 is the Judaeo-Christian principle that Lewis reinforces?
(a) Marriage and sexual intercourse are irrevocable acts, not to be entered into lightly at all.
(b) Sexual intercourse and sexual perversions are not major issues.
(c) Marrying the wrong woman for the wrong reasons can still lead to happiness.
(d) "One flesh" is a discussion topic, not a real teaching.

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

3. What does Wormwood's fate illustrate?
(a) Success matters, all else is only steps on a road.
(b) It is eat or be eaten in a world run by Hell.
(c) Inexperience has a steep price.
(d) Constant schooling and reminding are necessary for life.

4. What aspect about humans concerning change has always been useful to devils?
(a) Alternating change.
(b) Acceptance of change.
(c) Resistance to change.
(d) Restlessness for change.

5. What has Screwtape learned in corresponding with Slumtrimpet, the girlfriend's fiend?
(a) She sees marriage as an escape from family faith.
(b) She sees sex to be used as a trap toward marriage.
(c) She is innocently naïve about any faith or versions except her own.
(d) She secretly harbors resentment about her faith.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Screwtape label as fashionable Christianity?

3. How does Lewis view the effects of democracy?

4. What does Screwtape advise is the best means to get a person to act cowardly?

5. Why does Lewis contend scholars are the least likely to learn from thinkers of the past?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

5. Letter 22 is loaded with humor demonstrating Lewis' narrative creativity. What are some examples of this humor?

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

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

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

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

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

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