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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. How should Wormwood encourage the patient to think concerning humility?

2. Why is Wormwood told "living in the future" is preferable to living in the now.

3. What is the doctrine almost all humans profess but find difficult to accept?

4. What does Screwtape think is particularly fun about churches?

5. Why should a fiend never use science?

Short Essay Questions

1. Screwtape reminds Wormwood it is always important to focus on a person's feelings. Why are feelings seen to be advantageous to devil work?

2. Why does Screwtape think it is not favorable when a person does not care what others think?

3. Although Lewis talks about food and drink, what is the eternal truth contained in the message?

4. How does Screwtape suggest the use of pleasure, which clearly is from and belongs to God?

5. Why does Screwtape tell Wormwood the details of the war in progress are of no interest?

6. What does Screwtape explain is the advantage to having a person always thinking about the future?

7. The High Command has decided it is better that devils not reveal themselves. How does Screwtape explain the positive impact of that decision?

8. 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"?

9. Screwtape tells Wormwood major serious sin is useful but dangerous because it could lead the man back to God. What does he describe as preferable and much less likely to lead to God?

10. Wormwood sees a dry spell in the patient's faith as a totally positive development. Why does Screwtape see this as a shortcoming of Wormwood's training and not necessarily a positive?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

"I'm as good as you" is the thread of Screwtape's toast and Lewis' premise that the road to hell is through mediocrity fed by cultural numbness. Explain the cultural effects of this thread, especially as it relates to youth and as it relates to the lazy and dull individuals in a society.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Lewis relates that scholarly analysis tends to categorize and put into context to the point where the truth and value of a work is diminished or lost. Explore this idea in terms of modern thinking where context and category have gained importance, while content is not appreciated for itself until it "fits" somewhere. Is this modern thinking actually an outcome of marketing and sales, such as in the music business?

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