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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. Screwtape tells Wormwood it is best if patient avoids this.
(a) All inclinations to pray.
(b) Visions of Scripture re-enactments.
(c) Church attendance other than Sunday.
(d) Financial support of missionary works.

2. What does Lewis think makes a person slave to the appetites?
(a) Reliance upon dieting.
(b) Vanity about food knowledge and food preparation.
(c) Disregard of the opinion of others about consumption.
(d) Strong attachment to what goes into the mouth.

3. Why are sincere likings tools of the Enemy? . •
(a) Sincere likings make the person true to himself or herself.
(b) Sincere likings nourish the soul.
(c) Sincere likings seldom change over time.
(d) Sincere likings bond the person to the Enemy.

4. 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 humor is lacking a victim.
(c) When the patient sees humor in all things.
(d) When the patient misunderstands the punch line.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the role of the language department of Hell?

2. Why does Screwtape say God does not want humans to dwell on their sins?

3. What are the pleasures that awaken the patient to repentance?

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

5. According to Screwtape, which old wisdom is mostly dismissed in the modern world?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Screwtape explain is the advantage to having a person always thinking about the future?

3. How does Screwtape suggest the use of pleasure, which clearly is from and belongs to God?

4. 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?

5. 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"?

6. Wormwood sees a dry spell in the patient's faith as a totally positive development. Why does Screwtape see this as a shortcoming of Wormwood's training and not necessarily a positive?

7. Although Lewis talks about food and drink, what is the eternal truth contained in the message?

8. Why does Screwtape think it is not favorable when a person does not care what others think?

9. Why does Screwtape so heartily approve of the man's new friends that are bright, funny, skeptical, wealthy, and worldly?

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

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