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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the law of Undulation?
(a) The life of a human is a series of peaks and troughs.
(b) The human mindset often follows the seasonal changes.
(c) Good times are always followed by regret.
(d) Humans usually forget things, then repeat those same actions.

2. Why is Wormwood told "living in the future" is preferable to living in the now.
(a) This removes the patient from doing anything useful or charitable in the present.
(b) The future cannot be altered by the present.
(c) The past can be altered through imaginings.
(d) The future is thought to be remote.

3. Screwtape says humans living together will develop which of these over time?
(a) Contradictory love and hate feelings.
(b) Dependency about practical life matters.
(c) Spiritual awareness of the other.
(d) Voice tones and facials that irritate.

4. What are the best sort of jokes?
(a) Jokes about churchgoers.
(b) Jokes about sex.
(c) Jokes about science.
(d) Jokes that excuse acts of cruelty or cowardice.

5. Why should Wormwood draw the patient's attention to his humility?
(a) Humility discourages self-examination.
(b) Pride sets in almost immediately when a person thinks he is humble.
(c) Humility befuddles the mind of the patient.
(d) Humility encourages belief in modern jargon.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does the Enemy want the patient to view the future?

4. What is the name that issues policy for fiends?

5. Why does Screwtape have little regard for a patient's feelings?

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