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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 Screwtape remind Wormwood is most important about the war?
(a) How many Christians are killed.
(b) How many Christians abandon their faith.
(c) How humans are disrupted is most important.
(d) How humans behave is most important.

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

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

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

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 possibly involve sex or perversion.
(c) A chance to test God.
(d) An occasion to come closer to Heaven or to Hell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the point Lewis is making with the quotation "Experience is the mother of illusion"?

2. Why is sexual perversion a useful tool for the fiend?

3. How does Lewis view the effects of democracy?

4. What is Screwtape's view of the patient's new girl?

5. What does Screwtape suggest to Wormwood if God does not answer a prayer?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

7. What consistent Lewis theme about devil work is woven into Screwtape's specifics about women and love and sex and marriage?

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

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

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

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