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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 a common way a religious person is likely to be corrupted?
(a) When religion becomes a means to an end.
(b) When history can be shown to justify sin.
(c) When major sin is viewed as minor sin.
(d) When history does not support religion.

2. What does Screwtape tell Wormwood is great fodder for quarrels?
(a) Emphasis on the opinions of friends and relatives.
(b) One partner a spender and one partner a saver.
(c) One partner being overly sexual.
(d) Each partner trying to be less selfish than the other.

3. What is the name of the illustrated booklet for Wormwood enclosed with letter #22?
(a) Secrets of Sex from Screwtape.
(b) House of Correction for Incompetent Tempters.
(c) The Many Reasons God Is The Loser.
(d) The Devil Chain of Command.

4. How does Screwtape suggest to use the information he is providing to Wormwood?
(a) Introduce the serious sin of spiritual pride.
(b) Instill distrust in the patient toward the girl and family.
(c) Instill false pride in the patient about his relationship with the girl.
(d) Suggest the girl is flawed and not capable of fidelity.

5. What does Lewis think has replaced spectacular sinning as the surest road to hell?
(a) Societal indifference toward others.
(b) Uncontrolled sexual and selfish appetites.
(c) Cultural numbness about truth and excellence, which leads to mediocrity.
(d) Emphasis on the worldly and the material.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Screwtape become because he is so angry about the girl?

3. What pernicious things does Lewis say can claim a soul away from God?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

10. How does Screwtape describe to Wormwood the basic eternal conflict between God and devils?

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