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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. When does sex work best in the fiend's favor?
2. Why is Wormwood told "living in the future" is preferable to living in the now.
3. According to Lewis, when should a person be uncritical of other Christians' practices?
4. What does Screwtape say is the root of the sin of gluttony?
5. What is the role of the language department of Hell?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Screwtape suggest the use of pleasure, which clearly is from and belongs to God?
2. Screwtape tells Wormwood the English people are hateful in the abstract but kindly in the concrete. How does he suggest Wormwood use this information regarding the patient?
3. Relating to religious bodies, what does Screwtape say has proven very useful for producing malice over the centuries?
4. Why does Screwtape advise if the patient must pray at all, center prayer on his feelings and images?
5. Lewis contends ideas can be corrupted by corrupting the language associated with ideas. For example, what does Screwtape brag about corruption of the word "Puritanism"?
6. Screwtape tells Wormwood he can possibly win the battle for the man's soul by getting him to join a faction, any faction. How is this possible?
7. Although Lewis talks about food and drink, what is the eternal truth contained in the message?
8. What does Lewis say about a person's present day morality and responsibilities?
9. How does Screwtape tell Wormwood to use imaginings now that war is upon the patient?
10. What is a central theme Lewis is emphasizing in the context of dry spells of faith?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Lewis uses the term "church shopping" to describe an individual that looks with criticism and dissatisfaction upon successive churches, seeking one that satisfies a personal preference. All human decision making by definition requires at least two available options from which a choice can be made. Explain why "church shopping" is not the equivalent of routine decision making.
Essay Topic 2
Lewis contends the human mind can be shifted to focus thinking on an abstract level as a means to avoid having to deal with the reality right in front of a person. Expand on the question whether this reality to abstraction is a permanent feature of American society as it relates to political campaigns.
Essay Topic 3
Human progress is a chronicle of change in virtually all aspects of living to the extent that people seem to think change is not only inevitable and necessary, but also desirable. Elaborate on Lewis' premise that acquired knowledge can be lost from generation to generation because of rapid change. Provide examples of whether this is a favorable outcome.
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