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

2. What virtue does Screwtape suggest will be lacking in the patient because of his new friends?
(a) Forgiveness.
(b) Love.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Humility.

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

4. In Lewis's viewpoint, true love in marriage depends heavily upon what?
(a) Good fortune.
(b) Society support.
(c) Sexual intercourse.
(d) Virtues.

5. How do devils divorce humans from the learning of thinkers of the past?
(a) Suggest the authors fit only to their time and place in history.
(b) Suggest the authors had simplistic viewpoints.
(c) Discourage people by making past figures larger than life itself.
(d) Befuddle people by mixing falsehood with history.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What sort of Christian does Screwtape prefer?

3. How does Lewis summarize the cosmic battle?

4. Who are "They" that the patient sees at the same moment Wormwood cannot see?

5. What does Lewis suggest is a person's reward for doing one's duty?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. How does Screwtape regard the human restlessness for change, as a positive or a negative?

7. 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?

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

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

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