The Screwtape Letters

Screwtape encourages Wormwood to use all except which of the following tactics to discourage and distract his patient?

• focusing the patient on the five senses so he believes that is all there is to life
• causing him to make a philosophy (way of life) out of the incessant desire for something new
• distracting him with lunch so he puts off making a decision for Christ
• using the troughs of life to discipline and strengthen him because he is a "favorite"
• distracting him by having him focus on his neighbors' failings while in church

Screwtape mentions the Law of Undulation. Which describes this law?

• a series of troughs and peaks in every person's life
• a sudden, unexpected storm on the sea
• indigestion

Read the following and choose the best statement. "The dryness and dulness [sic] through which your patient is now going are not, as you fondly suppose, your workmanship; they are merely a natural phenomenon which will do us no good unless you make a good use of it."

• Periods of "drought" or dryness in a human's life are always unexpected and dangerous because we never know when they will hit or if they will hit.

• Periods of "drought" or difficulty in a human's life may be an opportunity for Satan to attack while we are weak.

"Hence the prayers offered in the state of dryness are those which please Him best....Our cause is never more in danger, than when a human, no longer desiring, but intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys." What most endangers the demons' cause?

• when demon's attack as a group

• when a person obeys by faith what he cannot see by sight

• when it's a religious holiday

• when we choose our friends wisely

The theme (author's message) in this piece is best describes are using irony in order to teach...

• The Devil's strategy as a whole is to twist truth and the pleasures God gifts us with and redirect people by asking the wrong questions without their realizing it.
• That there is a spiritual battle going on out in the universe somewhere, and demons are powerful in their own way.
• Satan uses war in order to distract humankind from seeking God because they tend to run from God during the high periods of stress.

Who wrote Screwtape Letters?

• J.R.R. Tolkien, a native Englishman and one of the greatest Christian fiction writers of all time
• Mary Shelley, a native English woman and one of the greatest gothic writers
• C.S. Lewis, a native of Ireland and one of the greatest Christian apologists of all time

"We want cattle who can finally become food; He wants servants who can finally become sons. We want to suck in, He wants to give out. We are empty and would be filled; He is full and flows over. Our war aim is a world in which Our Father Below has drawn all other beings into himself: the Enemy wants a world full of beings united to Him but still distinct." What does God desire?

• cattle who are food for Him

• cattle who are sacrifices for Him

• Sons who are united with Him while still remaining distinctly, uniquely themselves

• War is His aim - war with Satan and demons

C. S. Lewis did NOT write which of the following?

• The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

• The Chronicles of Narnia

• Screwtape Letters

• Mere Christianity

What does Screwtape say is the end result of the devil's Historical Point of View?

• They're so busy looking forward and looking for relevance of Truth that they don't think of the past

• Raise doubts about asking God for anythingHumans should think asking God for anything is crazy because humans don't have an impact

• "Our Father below" wants to prevent the wisdom of the past to be passed down from generation to generation

• Humans should think asking God for anything is crazy because humans don't have an impact

What does Screwtape tell Wormwood is an excellent way to stop human prayer?

• Raise doubts about asking God for anything

• Humans should focus on the people of today and ask does the thinking of the past still have an influence on today's thinking

• Raise doubts about asking God for anything Humans should think asking God for anything is crazy because humans don't have an impact

• Humans should think asking God for anything is crazy because humans don't have an impact