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

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

3. What does Screwtape offer Wormwood as proof that God is vulgar?
(a) He has filled the world with pleasure.
(b) He killed Himself on a cross.
(c) He created sex for humans.
(d) He makes promises to humans about eternity.

4. What does Lewis remind is a reliable road to Hell?
(a) The lack of response to prayers to God.
(b) The lack of prayer.
(c) Dramatic sins followed by early death.
(d) The long, slow, slippery slope.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Screwtape's response to whether it is desirable for a patient to be in love?

2. What does Screwtape say the Enemy claims is unselfishness?

3. What does Screwtape label as fashionable Christianity?

4. What does Screwtape advise as war nears the man's home town?

5. What does Screwtape describe as Wormwood's fate now that the struggle is over?

Short Essay Questions

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

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 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?

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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