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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 abandon their faith.
(b) How humans behave is most important.
(c) How many Christians are killed.
(d) How humans are disrupted is most important.

2. What does Screwtape advise as war nears the man's home town?
(a) Encourage the man to reckless selfishness.
(b) Encourage the man to hate all humanity.
(c) Undermine courage in the man because it is the forge point of all virtues.
(d) Encourage the man not to resist, rely upon the Enemy.

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

4. What does Screwtape say is the outcome of a person thinking time is their own?
(a) Lack of focus and procrastination.
(b) Laziness and wasting of time.
(c) Exasperation and impatience when "his/her" time is impinged upon.
(d) Entitlement to prevail upon the time of another.

5. What is the point Lewis is making with the quotation "Experience is the mother of illusion"?
(a) Relying on personal experience can bind a person to their mistakes.
(b) God's purpose of human free will is to create illusion.
(c) God allows humans to experience emotion.
(d) There is no truth because everything is an illusion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lewis think is needed within a marriage?

2. How do devils divorce humans from the learning of thinkers of the past?

3. What does Screwtape again need to remind Wormwood about the war?

4. What does Screwtape offer Wormwood as proof that God is vulgar?

5. What is one of Screwtape's most preferred strategies about the human mind?

Short Essay Questions

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

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 Lewis identify as the outcome of modern restless need for change?

4. Why does Screwtape advise Wormwood to focus upon the man's courage?

5. Lewis points out that a virtue that is not upheld when needed is not a virtue at all. What are his instructions to Wormwood to prepare for such situations?

6. Why does Screwtape encourage Wormwood to have the couple sacrifice and be "unselfish" toward each other?

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

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

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

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

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