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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. Why is a major sin by the patient not always helpful?
(a) Major sin is usually public, lessens impact.
(b) The nature of major sin can vary from person to person.
(c) Awakens the patient to just how lax he has become.
(d) Serious sin needs to be repeated for full effect.

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

3. When does humor least serve the fiend's mission?
(a) When the patient knows actions and deeds matter more than thoughts and words.
(b) When the patient sees humor in all things.
(c) When the patient misunderstands the punch line.
(d) When humor is lacking a victim.

4. What is the doctrine almost all humans profess but find difficult to accept?
(a) God directs human memory.
(b) All wrongs can be fixed.
(c) Talent is not created by a human, but a gift from God.
(d) Sinfulness is seldom extreme.

5. What is the wine of fiends to be sipped eternally?
(a) The dishonesty of humans.
(b) Anguish and bewilderment of the soul of the damned.
(c) Human habits of indifference and laziness.
(d) War and cruelty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which type of prayer pleases the Enemy the most?

2. When does humor always work toward a destructive purpose?

3. What does the Enemy view as true loyalty?

4. What is the goal of true humility?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Lewis writes "...indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts." How does this prose relate to the human condition?

2. Screwtape tells Wormwood major serious sin is useful but dangerous because it could lead the man back to God. What does he describe as preferable and much less likely to lead to God?

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

4. 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?

5. 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?

6. Why does Screwtape tell Wormwood the details of the war in progress are of no interest?

7. 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"?

8. Why does Screwtape tell Wormwood it is good for the patient to pray for his mother's soul?

9. Why does Screwtape tell Wormwood war is not necessarily always a good thing?

10. 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?

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