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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 does Screwtape tell Wormwood is great fodder for quarrels?
2. What does Screwtape suggest is the benefit of theories about the historical Jesus?
3. What is Screwtape's view of the patient's new girl?
4. What has Screwtape learned in corresponding with Slumtrimpet, the girlfriend's fiend?
5. What is upsetting to Screwtape about the sudden demise?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Screwtape outline as the strategy for instilling spiritual pride in a human?
2. Lewis says mental escape hatches undermine people in every endeavor that requires courage and perseverance. What does he mean by this and how do mental escape hatches work?
3. What does Screwtape reveal to be one of the greatest frustrations of the devils?
4. Why does Screwtape say it is always a good tactic to use Christianity as a means to an end?
5. 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?
6. What consistent Lewis theme about devil work is woven into Screwtape's specifics about women and love and sex and marriage?
7. 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?
8. How does Screwtape describe the influence of Hell and the devils when it comes to the idea of "falling 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. Screwtape advises that humans have absurd ideas about time. How does he explain the absurdities to Wormwood?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Lewis contends democracy stifles excellence and encourages sameness and conformity. Discuss the premise that democracy should guarantee equality of opportunity, but it has been distorted to the point where democracy guarantees equality in general. Examples could include activities where every participant gets a trophy, everybody's opinion is valuable, everybody gets equal playing or participating time, etc.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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