View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Screwtape describe as the only useful thing about war?
(a) War brings souls to Our Father Below.
(b) War brings fear and anxiety to humans.
(c) War usually leads to more future wars.
(d) War separates and destroys families.

2. What does Screwtape remind is the real business of a fiend?
(a) Undermine faith and prevent formation of virtue.
(b) Constantly develop the patient's life regrets.
(c) Foster anger and resentment.
(d) Alienate by word and action those closest to the patient.

3. What type of friendships should Wormwood encourage to the patient?
(a) People that have many moral values.
(b) People that are bright, skeptical, wealthy and worldly.
(c) People that are wholly committed churchgoers.
(d) People that have few moral values.

4. Screwtape says the best fiend work is done this way.
(a) Keeping things out of the mind rather than planting things within it.
(b) Encouraging the patient to hold God accountable.
(c) Planting suggestive thoughts during a patient's idle moments.
(d) Reviewing his fantasies while the patient rests.

5. What usually brings a person to Hell?
(a) Denial of the existence of the Enemy.
(b) Accumulation of material wealth.
(c) Small betrayals of the true self.
(d) Sexual liaisons and sexual betrayals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why should a fiend never use science?

2. Screwtape tells Wormwood it is best if patient avoids this.

3. What are the pleasures that awaken the patient to repentance?

4. How does Screwtape describe the composition of a human?

5. What is the role of the language department of Hell?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 337 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample