Miscellaneous
In one letter, Screwtape suddenly transforms into what?
Centipede
“As one of the humans has said, active habits are strengthened by ____ but passive ones are weakened”
Repetition (67)
What daily habit does Screwtape suggest Wormwood use to create resentment between the Patient and his mother?
Small irritations, tone of voice
To what does Screwtape compare the image of the Enemy humans have while praying?
Composite object
How should prayer be used according to Screwtape?
Make them become selfish and self absorbed (16)
What is Wormwood's rank/ job?
Junior tempter
“Do not attempt to use ____ as a defense against ____.”
Science, Christianity (4)
How does Screwtape suggest using the Patient’s newfound humility against him?
By making him proud of being humble, which turns humility into vanity. - Spiritual pride
What type of world does the Enemy want?
A world in which everyone is united to Him but distinct (39)
Wormwood messed up by allowing the patient to experience which two “real positive Pleasures”?
Reading and enjoying a book, walking to the old mill to have tea (64)
Which tempter was assigned to the patient’s mother?
Glubose
“...all our research so far has not enabled us to produce one.” According to Screwtape, what has not been produced by demons, and who has produced all the existing ones?
Pleasures, the Enemy (44)
What phenomenon did Screwtape use to explain why Wormwood should not have “great hopes that the patient’s religious phase is dying away”
The law of Undulation
What is the Enemy’s motive behind creating humans and caring about them so much?
Disinterested love (100)
What is the best barricade against the Enemy?
suspense and anxiety, maximum uncertainty, keep man thinking about what will happen to them (25)
Screwtape attached a booklet with one of his letters, what was its topic?
The new House of Correction for Incompetent Tempters (117)
“...simpering, demure, monosyllabic, mouse-like, watery…” Who does Screwtape describe with these words?
The love interest/the young woman (117)
What kind of “sensuality” has the patient’s mother been unknowingly enslaved to her whole life?
Gluttony of Delicacy (87)
How does Screwtape describe who the Enemy is at heart?
A hedonist (118)
Any man can be found to be haunted by what two imaginary women?
A terrestrial and an infernal Venus (108)
In chapter 24, Screwtape’s secretary writes on his behalf, how does he end/ sign the letter?
“For his Abysmal Sublimity Under Secretary Screwtape” (121)
“Future is, of all things, the thing least like Eternal. It is the most completely ___ part of time— for the Past is ___and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with ___”
temporal, frozen, eternal rays (76)
What is the defect in the Patient’s love interest that the Patient should imitate?
love interest: ignorance/ naivety that outsiders who do not share belief are stupid; patient: spiritual pride, feeling proud for being in that circle of Christian (130)
What is the doctrine that the Enemy wants to be real in the patient’s mind but is difficult for the patient to accept? (3 components)
“that they did not create themselves, that their talents were given them, and that they might as well be proud of the colour of their hair” (72)
What phenomenon is used to create conflict between individuals who are acting out of a well-meaning virtue? (name the phenomenon and the virtue)
The Generous Conflict Illusion, Unselfishness (143)