Screwtape Letters 17-31

Screwtape Letters 17-31

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Multiple Choice

Why does Screwtape tell Wormwood not to show his letters to anyone?

• He doesn't want to give away his best tempting stratagies.

• He is embarrassed of his sloppy penmanship.

• He doesn't want other junior demons to find out he has been coaching Wormwood.

• He doesn’t want anyone to see that he said the Enemy really loves humans.

Multiple Choice

According to Screwtape, the demons have been able to make humans proud of most vices, but NOT _______.

• greed

• cowardice

• anger

• sloth

Multiple Choice

Toadpipe finishes writing one of Screwtape's letters because he was turned into a _______.

• snake

• centipede

• dragon

• spider

Multiple Choice

Screwtape thinks that middle-aged prosperity benefits the tempters.

• True

• False

"If, on the other hand, the middle years prove prosperous, our position is even stronger. Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that he is ‘finding his place in it’, while really it is finding its place in him” (155).

Multiple Choice

What happens to the Patient at the end of the book?

• he becomes an atheist

• he is transferred to another demon

• he writes a book

• he dies