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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Screwtape think is particularly fun about churches?
(a) To work up hatred between religious bodies based on mere differences in ritual.
(b) To create distractions during church services.
(c) To create suspicion about neighboring church actions.
(d) To promote similarities among religions, decreasing options.

2. 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 accepts that the Enemy exists.
(d) When the patient exercises free will and chooses loyalty to the Enemy.

3. What is the mindset that discourages belief that fiends exist?
(a) Disbelief in all spiritual matters, good and bad.
(b) Fiends cannot exist in a materialistic world.
(c) All things can be explained by science.
(d) The Enemy has totally conquered all fiends.

4. What does Screwtape see as one advantage of church?
(a) Church is inconvenient.
(b) Church can be made rife with factionalism.
(c) Church can become routine and boring.
(d) Church can become a mindless habit.

5. What is the role of the language department of Hell?
(a) Promote bad news items to create anxiety.
(b) Corrupt the meaning of a word, thereby corrupting the idea.
(c) Promote good news items to provoke jealousy.
(d) Suggest meaningless jargon.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does sex work best in the fiend's favor?

2. What does Screwtape say is the root of the sin of gluttony?

3. Why is false humility good for the fiend's cause?

4. What is the law of Undulation?

5. Why is Wormwood told "living in the future" is preferable to living in the now.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Screwtape tell Wormwood to use imaginings now that war is upon the patient?

2. What does Screwtape explain about the dynamics of a person who is church shopping?

3. Lewis asserts that dry spells in faith are an excellent time to tempt the man with sex? Why is sex especially useful to a devil during such times?

4. Screwtape reminds Wormwood it is always important to focus on a person's feelings. Why are feelings seen to be advantageous to devil work?

5. Why does Screwtape advise if the patient must pray at all, center prayer on his feelings and images?

6. Lewis elaborates on the traditional version of gluttony as over-consumption of food or drink. What does he describe as the modern forms of gluttony and its effects?

7. How does Screwtape recommend that Wormwood prevent humans from using their reasoning?

8. Screwtape explains it is good to have a person develop a false and low opinion of God- given talent and likewise have a person regularly think of past sinfulness. How does Screwtape explain this as contrary to God's plans?

9. Screwtape instructs that not all humor is useful to a devil, but certain types are especially useful. What are the types of humor useful to a devil?

10. Lewis contends ideas can be corrupted by corrupting the language associated with ideas. For example, what does Screwtape brag about corruption of the word "Puritanism"?

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