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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letter 27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Screwtape say is the modern version of gluttony?
(a) Excess consumption of liquor at mealtime.
(b) Excess consumption of desserts at mealtime.
(c) Taking food away from the serving table in "doggy bags."
(d) Close attention to dieting even at the inconvenience of others.

2. According to Lewis, when should a person be uncritical of other Christians' practices?
(a) When the practices do not involve actual sin.
(b) When the practices involve the Enemy.
(c) When the practices are time consuming and demanding.
(d) When the practices are similar to the church a person attends.

3. Why are factions to be encouraged by fiends?
(a) Factions suppress positive thinking.
(b) Factions draw people away from the Enemy.
(c) Factions divide families and friends.
(d) Factions foster pride and hatred.

4. What does Screwtape suggest to Wormwood if God does not answer a prayer?
(a) Asking God for things is absurd because prayer has no impact upon the world.
(b) Suggest that God is stern and slow to react.
(c) Suggest that God does not intervene directly in individual lives.
(d) Remind that a person has free will; God is just a bystander.

5. When does sex work best in the fiend's favor?
(a) When the patient is an adolescent.
(b) When sex is bereft of love, as a remedy for emotional pain.
(c) When sex involves deceit of another.
(d) When sex is readily available and involves multiple partners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What should Wormwood do to encourage snappishness and increase aggravations?

2. Why is sexual perversion a useful tool for the fiend?

3. What makes the fiend's job easier?

4. What virtue does Screwtape suggest will be lacking in the patient because of his new friends?

5. Why is false humility good for the fiend's cause?

(see the answer key)

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