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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Screwtape advise as war nears the man's home town?
(a) Encourage the man to reckless selfishness.
(b) Undermine courage in the man because it is the forge point of all virtues.
(c) Encourage the man not to resist, rely upon the Enemy.
(d) Encourage the man to hate all humanity.

2. What sort of Christian does Screwtape prefer?
(a) Christians interested in Christianity and something else.
(b) Uncommitted Christians.
(c) Mere Christians.
(d) Christians befuddled by Christianity.

3. What is Screwtape's view of the patient's new girl?
(a) She is of loose character and morals.
(b) She is a sexual pervert who will be a good match.
(c) She is dimwitted and easily manipulated.
(d) She is a sincere Christian that in the old days would have been fed to the lions.

4. What does Screwtape tell Wormwood is an excellent way to stop human prayer?
(a) Raise doubts that God exists.
(b) Emphasize unfairness of life.
(c) Raise doubts that asking God for things is appropriate at all.
(d) Emphasize the successes of dishonesty.

5. What should Wormwood do to encourage snappishness and increase aggravations?
(a) Surround the patient with annoying people.
(b) Regularly remind the patient of previous embarrassments.
(c) Raise the patient's expectations of what life owes to him.
(d) Lower the patient's expectations of what life owes to him.

6. What does Screwtape label as fashionable Christianity?
(a) Christianity devoted only to any single subject.
(b) Christianity concerned with passing trends and fads.
(c) Christianity devoted only to ending war.
(d) Christianity devoted only to social justice.

7. According to Screwtape, a person can rightfully claim ownership to __________.
(a) The time in service to God.
(b) The soul.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The body.

8. Why does Lewis contend scholars are the least likely to learn from thinkers of the past?
(a) Scholars confuse each other.
(b) The public expects scholars to discover newness in the old and the known.
(c) Scholars rarely ask if the content is true and befuddle themselves with contexts and categories.
(d) Scholars understand things only from one aspect of training.

9. What aspect about humans concerning change has always been useful to devils?
(a) Alternating change.
(b) Resistance to change.
(c) Acceptance of change.
(d) Restlessness for change.

10. What is the key point Screwtape tells about time?
(a) Time is a gift to be used in the service of God.
(b) Time is a silly measure invented by mankind.
(c) Nobody really knows what time it is.
(d) People do not truly understand time and how to use it.

11. What does Screwtape suggest is the benefit of theories about the historical Jesus?
(a) Moves the focus from the spiritual on to the political.
(b) Theories portray Jesus as very ordinary, therefore not from God.
(c) So much speculation can be twisted from every theory.
(d) Since little is known, the more theories the better.

12. What does Lewis think is needed within a marriage?
(a) Denial of free will in favor of harmony.
(b) Openness to criticism.
(c) Prayerfulness.
(d) Effort by free will to form faith and virtues.

13. How does Lewis summarize the cosmic battle?
(a) Good will only triumph through man's actions.
(b) God's nature is to create and give; Satan's nature is to plot and steal.
(c) God's forces are angels and the living; Satan's forces are countless fiends.
(d) The world is equally balanced between good and evil.

14. How do devils divorce humans from the learning of thinkers of the past?
(a) Suggest the authors had simplistic viewpoints.
(b) Suggest the authors fit only to their time and place in history.
(c) Befuddle people by mixing falsehood with history.
(d) Discourage people by making past figures larger than life itself.

15. How is God's love viewed from Hell's standpoint?
(a) A useful concept because people tend to reject it.
(b) A useful concept because people unsuccessfully try to "earn" it.
(c) A fanciful notion with no basis or proof.
(d) Devious and selfish, totally incomprehensible and impossible.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Screwtape mention is a devil's delight and will consistently provide a good supply of humans?

2. How does Screwtape instruct Wormwood to use the horrors of war?

3. What is the Judaeo-Christian principle that Lewis reinforces?

4. What does Screwtape suggest to Wormwood if God does not answer a prayer?

5. How do devils use the media concerning female desirability?

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