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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. What tactics should Wormwood use to help people claim ownership?
2. How does Screwtape suggest to use the information he is providing to Wormwood?
3. What does Screwtape identify as lacking in the current menu of sinners?
4. Why is sexual perversion a useful tool for the fiend?
5. What does Screwtape suggest is the benefit of theories about the historical Jesus?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Lewis think Christians should be alert to their social responsibilities?
2. Why does Screwtape say it is always a good tactic to use Christianity as a means to an end?
3. Lewis again demonstrates cutting humor in letter 24 concerning the child who thinks whatever is used in her house is the "normal" one and anything used by the neighbors is "not normal", or the hunting dog who thinks it understands firearms simply because it enjoys hunting with the master. What is the point Lewis is making with these humorous examples?
4. What does Lewis describe as the key to success in both the physical and the spiritual sense?
5. How does Screwtape describe the influence of Hell and the devils when it comes to the idea of "falling in love".
6. How does Screwtape describe to Wormwood the basic eternal conflict between God and devils?
7. Part of Screwtape's toast at the annual dinner of the Tempters' Training College is an explanation of how Democracy helps devils work. What are the highlights of this help that Democracy provides?
8. 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?
9. Screwtape chastises Wormwood for the unsatisfactory ending of the man. What is the description Lewis provides relative to the entrance into the spiritual realm?
10. Lewis contends scholars cause confusion and the result is wisdom lost. How does Lewis explain his thinking on this?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The accumulation of small sin is said to be more damaging than the occasional spectacular sin because the small ones are the true betrayal of self. Specify three small sins and describe how each constitutes the small betrayal, the slow incremental slippage.
Essay Topic 2
Lewis also wrote a book "Mere Christianity." Screwtape asserts that mere Christianity is not favorable for the devils. Explain why Screwtape holds this view. Describe the opposite of mere Christianity and provide examples.
Essay Topic 3
Circumstances do not matter but rather how a person deals with them is most important, according to Lewis. Modern news coverage and legal trials often delve intimately in to a person's past as explanation for current actions. Agree or refute Lewis's view point by elaborating upon whether such explanations are relevant and, secondly, address whether an explanation can be used for as disguised as justification.
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