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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. How is God's love viewed from Hell's standpoint?
(a) A fanciful notion with no basis or proof.
(b) A useful concept because people unsuccessfully try to "earn" it.
(c) A useful concept because people tend to reject it.
(d) Devious and selfish, totally incomprehensible and impossible.

2. What does Lewis think slowed twentieth century progress and thereby helped Hell?
(a) Advances of Christianity in heathen territories.
(b) Unchecked appetites for worldliness and goods.
(c) Increased human tolerance in sexual matters.
(d) Socialism, communism, and Nazism.

3. What is an effective tactic to remove people from close encounters with Jesus?
(a) Suggest expectations of encounters with Jesus is childish.
(b) Point out the lack of modern appearances by Jesus.
(c) Make Jesus an interesting figure of history.
(d) Suggest Jesus could not have really existed in history.

4. What does Lewis label the greatest sin of the age?
(a) Lack of agreement about the reasons societies decline.
(b) Lack of goals and visions of improvements.
(c) Allowing senseless ideas and groups to flourish.
(d) Factional divisions and hatred among Christians.

5. What does Lewis think is required to sustain a marriage?
(a) Forgiveness concerning conflicting views.
(b) Strict rules about selfishness.
(c) Modest views about sexual matters.
(d) Real charity practiced day in and day out.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Screwtape offer Wormwood as proof that God is vulgar?

2. What does Screwtape advise is the best means to get a person to act cowardly?

3. What is the name of the illustrated booklet for Wormwood enclosed with letter #22?

4. How should Wormwood try to portray Christianity?

5. How does Lewis deal with the idea of fearful feelings?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lewis think Christians should be alert to their social responsibilities?

2. How does Screwtape regard the human restlessness for change, as a positive or a negative?

3. What is Lewis' concluding characterization of the modern age?

4. Lewis explains that in the end either God or Satan will claim a person's time, actions and ultimately the soul? How does each claim ownership in this eternal struggle between God and Satan?

5. How does Screwtape describe to Wormwood the basic eternal conflict between God and devils?

6. Why does Screwtape advise Wormwood to focus upon the man's courage?

7. What does Screwtape outline as the strategy for instilling spiritual pride in a human?

8. Letter 22 is loaded with humor demonstrating Lewis' narrative creativity. What are some examples of this humor?

9. What does Lewis describe as the key to success in both the physical and the spiritual sense?

10. What does Screwtape reveal to be one of the greatest frustrations of the devils?

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