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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. Why is Wormwood told "living in the future" is preferable to living in the now.
2. Why does Screwtape want people totally obsessed with the future?
3. What does Screwtape see as one advantage of church?
4. When is Wormwood close to winning the soul of the patient in a faction?
5. What is an excellent way to insulate the heart from the Enemy?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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"?
2. Why does Screwtape tell Wormwood war is not necessarily always a good thing?
3. Relating to religious bodies, what does Screwtape say has proven very useful for producing malice over the centuries?
4. How does Screwtape suggest the use of pleasure, which clearly is from and belongs to God?
5. Why does Screwtape encourage Wormwood to play upon the man's disappointment with his fellow churchgoers?
6. Lewis writes "...indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts." How does this prose relate to the human condition?
7. Why does Screwtape so heartily approve of the man's new friends that are bright, funny, skeptical, wealthy, and worldly?
8. What does Screwtape explain is the advantage to having a person always thinking about the future?
9. What does Screwtape explain about the dynamics of a person who is church shopping?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
The most basic of devilish tactics is to shift human focus. Relating to this tactic, describe in detail Lewis' premise that a Christian's thinking can have an origin of worship of God, shift to pride in oneself, and then shift to spiritual pride
Essay Topic 3
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.
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