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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Screwtape remind Wormwood is most important about the war?
(a) How humans are disrupted is most important.
(b) How many Christians abandon their faith.
(c) How many Christians are killed.
(d) How humans behave is most important.

2. What is the point Lewis is making with the quotation "Experience is the mother of illusion"?
(a) God allows humans to experience emotion.
(b) There is no truth because everything is an illusion.
(c) Relying on personal experience can bind a person to their mistakes.
(d) God's purpose of human free will is to create illusion.

3. What does Lewis suggest is a person's reward for doing one's duty?
(a) A peaceful death.
(b) A sense of inner peace throughout life.
(c) Seeing and being with God.
(d) Consistent spiritual pains.

4. What is a very helpful satanic idea concerning sexual temptation?
(a) The more sexual activity the better.
(b) Chastity is unhealthy.
(c) Sexual temptation cannot be wiped away.
(d) Sexual abstention is impossible.

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

6. How should Wormwood try to portray Christianity?
(a) A committee of clueless volunteers
(b) A mystery religion known only to the select.
(c) A cult with an absent leader.
(d) A massive group of befuddled people.

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

8. What do life happenings provide for every person according to Lewis?
(a) An occasion to possibly involve sex or perversion.
(b) An occasion to come closer to Heaven or to Hell.
(c) A chance to test God.
(d) A chance to find or to advance personal success.

9. What does Screwtape advise is the best means to get a person to act cowardly?
(a) Instill thoughts of jealousy and envy.
(b) Remind the patient of personal shortcomings.
(c) Fill the mind with little escape hatches in advance of the time courage is needed.
(d) Provide historical examples of humans that failed tests of courage.

10. In Lewis's viewpoint, true love in marriage depends heavily upon what?
(a) Sexual intercourse.
(b) Society support.
(c) Virtues.
(d) Good fortune.

11. What is Screwtape's depiction of Hell?
(a) Hell is a place where human tormentors in life become the victims.
(b) Hell is a place of unending cruelty toward the weakest.
(c) Hell is a place where the superior consume the weak and inferior.
(d) Hell is a place where the flawed humans constantly repeat lies.

12. What does Screwtape identify as lacking in the current menu of sinners?
(a) Lack of the old and tired, too many are dying young.
(b) Lack of spectacular sinners with huge egos and unlimited cruelties.
(c) Too many are sinning too little due to strengthening Christianity.
(d) The young are dying before the devils can complete their assignments.

13. What does Screwtape recommend to undermine human courage?
(a) Befuddle the thinking with imaginings of super-hero action.
(b) Provide thoughts of a tranquil future if current crisis is avoided.
(c) Provoke the thinking there is also something more than courage to fall back on.
(d) Provide graphic illusions of violence and death.

14. What does Screwtape again need to remind Wormwood about the war?
(a) War provides a distraction from attention to God.
(b) War itself is secondary to how people act during a war.
(c) War itself provokes an increase in prayer.
(d) War provides opportunity to create heroes.

15. What does Screwtape say about cowardice?
(a) Humans always try to label true cowardice as something else.
(b) Cowardice is a natural human trait instilled at birth.
(c) Every human feels genuine shame about cowardice.
(d) Most humans do not recognize what is true cowardice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Screwtape tell Wormwood is an excellent way to stop human prayer?

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

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

4. What does Screwtape label as fashionable Christianity?

5. Due to devilish ideas, what do people think about sexual satisfaction only through marriage?

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