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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the origin of all pleasure, including sex?
(a) Our Father Below.
(b) Worldly success.
(c) The Enemy.
(d) Free will.

2. What does Screwtape see as one advantage of church?
(a) Church can be made rife with factionalism.
(b) Church is inconvenient.
(c) Church can become a mindless habit.
(d) Church can become routine and boring.

3. What makes the fiend's job easier?
(a) When a person is concerned with what to do, not what to think.
(b) When a person is concerned with what to do, regardless of what happens.
(c) When a person resents what has already happened, not what to do presently.
(d) When a person is concerned with what might happen, not with what to do.

4. What does Screwtape suggest is a good strategy for ongoing fiend work?
(a) All pleasures should be encouraged as only a phase.
(b) Sex should always be overemphasized.
(c) Allow the free will to seek sex perversions as a phase.
(d) Get the patient to think in terms of phases.

5. How can a fiend best use pleasures the patient experiences?
(a) Encourage forbidden uses of pleasure.
(b) Suggest less of the same to create tension.
(c) Encourage regret and resentment.
(d) Suggest more of the same to the point of overindulgence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Screwtape distrust church in general?

2. What can be fatal to a fiend's plan for a patient?

3. What will cause a person to retreat from the Enemy into the darkness of Nothing? .

4. What is Screwtape's description of the safest road to Hell?

5. Why does St. Paul suggest others should submit to those with rigid opinions concerning church details?

(see the answer key)

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