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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is always the primary goal of a fiend?
(a) To create false ideas.
(b) To cause anxiety.
(c) To teach incorrectly.
(d) To befuddle.

2. Where do the fiends receive training?
(a) Training College.
(b) Devil's Workshop.
(c) The Fiend Foundation.
(d) The School.

3. When is the fiend's mission in the greatest danger?
(a) When the patient chooses the spiritual instead of science.
(b) When the patient exercises free will.
(c) When the patient exercises free will and chooses loyalty to the Enemy.
(d) When the patient accepts that the Enemy exists.

4. When is Wormwood close to winning the soul of the patient in a faction?
(a) When factions become violent toward others.
(b) When the patient faction links with other factions.
(c) When the patient comes to believe the faction is part of the religion.
(d) When the number of souls in a faction is extremely large.

5. Screwtape tells Wormwood to train the patient about prayer.
(a) The best prayers are measured by review of personal possessions.
(b) The best prayers are built upon childhood parrot-like repetition.
(c) The best prayers are personal imaginings about God.
(d) The best prayers are measured by the feelings produced.

6. What have the Enemy's servants taught for 2000 years as the greatest temptation?
(a) Science
(b) Pride
(c) Sex
(d) Worldliness

7. Why should Wormwood attack immediately if the patient is happily living in the present?
(a) Happy is not a natural human condition.
(b) The patient has no right to be happy.
(c) The Enemy always helps happy people.
(d) The patient may become permanently happy.

8. What does Screwtape believe to be an elementary fact?
(a) Humans always at some point distrust the Enemy.
(b) Humans are incapable of setting and keeping goals.
(c) Humans can be easily misled.
(d) Humans tend to become whatever they pretend to be.

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

10. 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 resents what has already happened, not what to do presently.
(c) When a person is concerned with what to do, regardless of what happens.
(d) When a person is concerned with what might happen, not with what to do.

11. Screwtape advises that which of these pairings especially help to barricade the patient mind against the Enemy?
(a) Revenge and nastiness.
(b) Suspense and anxiety.
(c) Grief and sadness.
(d) Envy and jealousy.

12. Why does Screwtape advise it is good the new Christian is still going to church?
(a) Keeps his focus on empty ritual rather than substance.
(b) Keeps him from noticing his faith is slipping away.
(c) Keeps him alert to the sins of fellow churchgoers.
(d) Allows him to think he understands all about the Enemy.

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

14. Why does Screwtape have little regard for a patient's feelings?
(a) Feelings are seldom important, actions are what matter.
(b) Feelings are usually short-lived and conflicting.
(c) Feelings cannot be combated easily.
(d) Feelings can be easily manipulated by family and friends.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How should Wormwood encourage the patient to think concerning humility?

2. What is the doctrine almost all humans profess but find difficult to accept?

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

4. What does Screwtape think is particularly fun about churches?

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

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