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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Lewis advise is the outcome of lack of commitment to important matters?
(a) A life of befuddled underachievement.
(b) Strong possibility of worldly success.
(c) A life lived mostly free of stress.
(d) Strong possibility of failure.

4. What pernicious things does Lewis say can claim a soul away from God?
(a) A lifetime of prosperity and worldliness.
(b) Choice of unsuitable friends and habits.
(c) Charity and good intentions to the point of obsession.
(d) Abandonment of positive thoughts and hopes.

5. How does Screwtape suggest to use the information he is providing to Wormwood?
(a) Suggest the girl is flawed and not capable of fidelity.
(b) Introduce the serious sin of spiritual pride.
(c) Instill distrust in the patient toward the girl and family.
(d) Instill false pride in the patient about his relationship with the girl.

6. What does Screwtape say is the Enemy's standard about sexual matters?
(a) Can be controlled by the intellect.
(b) Can never be used as an enticement.
(c) Complete abstinence or complete monogamy.
(d) Constant wariness is required.

7. What has Screwtape learned in corresponding with Slumtrimpet, the girlfriend's fiend?
(a) She sees sex to be used as a trap toward marriage.
(b) She sees marriage as an escape from family faith.
(c) She secretly harbors resentment about her faith.
(d) She is innocently naïve about any faith or versions except her own.

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

9. What is Screwtape's basic idea about human life?
(a) Sexual intercourse is the driving human life force.
(b) Life is cooperation and oneness between separate entities
(c) Without sexual intercourse, human life would revert to savagery.
(d) Life is predatory competition.

10. What does Screwtape suggest to Wormwood if God does answer a prayer?
(a) Remind of people throughout history that prayed in vain.
(b) Explain that what happened would have happened anyway.
(c) Recall the many instances prayer was not answered.
(d) Remind that God tests His people constantly.

11. What does Screwtape describe as Wormwood's fate now that the struggle is over?
(a) He will be assigned to a different member of the same patient's family
(b) He will be eaten in Hell, where the strong consume the weak.
(c) He will be given a less challenging patient.
(d) He will be re-assigned to Training School

12. What is the goal of marrying off a patient to an unsuitable partner?
(a) Maximum misery and a loss of faith.
(b) Sexual intercourse happens infrequently.
(c) God loses much interest and moves on.
(d) Sexual perversion is almost a sure thing.

13. What is a common way a religious person is likely to be corrupted?
(a) When major sin is viewed as minor sin.
(b) When history does not support religion.
(c) When religion becomes a means to an end.
(d) When history can be shown to justify sin.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the point Lewis is making with the quotation "Experience is the mother of illusion"?

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

3. Why does Screwtape think it is best not to have a person die young?

4. As a result of devilish influence, what do people think about "falling in love"?

5. What makes Screwtape especially angry about the couple?

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