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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 advise is the outcome of lack of commitment to important matters?
(a) Strong possibility of worldly success.
(b) A life lived mostly free of stress.
(c) A life of befuddled underachievement.
(d) Strong possibility of failure.

2. What preference by God does Screwtape view as nonsense?
(a) Unity in diversity, such as male and female as one flesh.
(b) Sexual intercourse is reserved for mature adults only.
(c) Multiple sexual acts should always be repented.
(d) Sexual intercourse creates a temporary bond.

3. What does Screwtape mention is a devil's delight and will consistently provide a good supply of humans?
(a) Human demands that God act according to their wishes.
(b) Hatred and rivalry within the family.
(c) Christians that hate one another due to denomination or due to ritual differences.
(d) Sexual excesses and perversions.

4. What is upsetting to Screwtape about the sudden demise?
(a) Wormwood was inattentive and all was lost.
(b) The patient had too much time for preparation.
(c) Wormwood failed to ask Screwtape's help at the end.
(d) The patient "got through" without slow suffering plus he immediately recognized the workings of Wormwood.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Screwtape describe an "infernal Venus"?

2. What has Screwtape learned in corresponding with Slumtrimpet, the girlfriend's fiend?

3. What does Screwtape identify as lacking in the current menu of sinners?

4. How does Lewis summarize the cosmic battle?

5. What does Screwtape suggest to Wormwood if God does answer a prayer?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

10. What is a basic Lewis theme he illustrates when Wormwood asks is it desirable for the man to be in love or not to be in love?

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