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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 try to develop permanent deceit in the patient?
2. What usually brings a person to Hell?
3. How can a fiend best use pleasures the patient experiences?
4. What does Screwtape think is particularly fun about churches?
5. Which type of prayer pleases the Enemy the most?
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. How does Screwtape recommend that Wormwood prevent humans from using their reasoning?
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. How does Screwtape explain that false humility can be useful to a devil, but true humility can be dangerous?
6. Why does Screwtape advise if the patient must pray at all, center prayer on his feelings and images?
7. What does Screwtape explain about the dynamics of a person who is church shopping?
8. The High Command has decided it is better that devils not reveal themselves. How does Screwtape explain the positive impact of that decision?
9. Why does Screwtape think it is not favorable when a person does not care what others think?
10. How does Screwtape tell Wormwood to use imaginings now that war is upon the patient?
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 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
Lewis asserts that jokes and humor can be the work of the devil if used to justify rude or bad behavior. Elaborate on the reasons he contends flippancy is the most damaging of all humor.
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