The Screwtape Letters 4-6 Reading Check

Screwtape tells Wormwood it is best if patient avoids this.

• Visions of Scripture re-enactments.

• All inclinations to pray.

• Church attendance other than Sunday.

• Financial support of missionary works.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

Screwtape says the best fiend work is done this way.

• Encouraging the patient to hold God accountable.

• Planting suggestive thoughts during a patient's idle moments.

• Keeping things out of the mind rather than planting things within it.

• Reviewing his fantasies while the patient rests.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

Screwtape tells Wormwood to train the patient about prayer.

• The best prayers are measured by review of personal possessions.

• The best prayers are measured by the feelings produced.

• The best prayers are personal imaginings about God.

• The best prayers are built upon childhood parrot-like repetition.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

What is the wine of fiends to be sipped eternally?

• Anguish and bewilderment of the soul of the damned.

• War and cruelty.

• Human habits of indifference and laziness.

• The dishonesty of humans.

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

What does Screwtape remind is the real business of a fiend?

• Constantly develop the patient's life regrets.

• Alienate by word and action those closest to the patient.

• Undermine faith and prevent formation of virtue.

• Foster anger and resentment.

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

What does Screwtape describe as the only useful thing about war?

• War brings souls to Our Father Below.

• War separates and destroys families.

• War brings fear and anxiety to humans.

• War usually leads to more future wars.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

What does Screwtape think is the true danger about wars?

• Occupies people's minds, making distraction difficult.

• Resolves differences among enemies.

• Diverts people from themselves to perceived higher values and causes.

• Creates heroes and legends people will believe.

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

Screwtape describes this as one of a fiend's best weapons.

• Materialism.

• Contented worldliness.

• Fear.

• Envy and jealousy

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

According to Screwtape, which is the better way for a patient to die?

• Anonymously in an action of war.

• Quietly at home, without prayer.

• In a nursing home among lying doctors, lying nurses, and lying friends.

• Tragic accident shocking to family and friends.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

What makes the fiend's job easier?

• When a person is concerned with what to do, regardless of what happens.

• When a person is concerned with what to do, not what to think.

• When a person is concerned with what might happen, not with what to do.

• When a person resents what has already happened, not what to do presently.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3