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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the best sort of jokes?

2. How should the fiend encourage the patient to think about malice and benevolence?

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

4. Screwtape advises that which of these pairings especially help to barricade the patient mind against the Enemy?

5. What does Screwtape suggest is a good strategy for ongoing fiend work?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

8. 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?

9. How does Screwtape explain that false humility can be useful to a devil, but true humility can be dangerous?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The most basic of devilish tactics is to shift human focus. Relating to this tactic, describe in detail Lewis' premise that a Christian's thinking can have an origin of worship of God, shift to pride in oneself, and then shift to spiritual pride

Essay Topic 2

Circumstances do not matter but rather how a person deals with them is most important, according to Lewis. Modern news coverage and legal trials often delve intimately in to a person's past as explanation for current actions. Agree or refute Lewis's view point by elaborating upon whether such explanations are relevant and, secondly, address whether an explanation can be used for as disguised as justification.

Essay Topic 3

Lewis contends the human mind can be shifted to focus thinking on an abstract level as a means to avoid having to deal with the reality right in front of a person. Expand on the question whether this reality to abstraction is a permanent feature of American society as it relates to political campaigns.

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