Wormwood's Wrongdoings
Screwtape relates the patient seeing Wormwood for the first time to a ______ falling from an old sore
What is a scab?
The guest of honor at the annual dinner of the tempters training college for young devils.
Who is Screwtape?
“Screwtape’s whites are our _____ and whatever he welcomes we should ______”
What is blacks, dread?
This ‘terrible habit’ will make the patient continue his crude prayers.
What is obedience?
The negative counterpart of charity.
What is unselfishness?
Screwtape fears that this will happen if the patient dies during the bomb raids.
What is him going to Heaven?
The Devils eat these at the banquet.
What are human souls?
The picture of human life presented by The Screwtape Letters is lop-sided for this reason.
Ideally, Screwtape’s advice should have been balanced by archangelical advice to the patient’s guardian angel.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at this.
What is the testing point?
Devils are not able to produce any of this in people.
What is virtue?
In the last letter, it is implied that Screwtape and the other devils will do this to Wormwood as a consequence for his failure.
What is consume him?
The basic principle of the new ‘democratic’ education.
What is that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils?
How Lewis felt about writing more for the Screwtape Letters.
What is he “Never wrote with less enjoyment”?
“The Enemy does not ____ the humans making their free contributions in a future, but _____ them doing so in His unbounded Now.”
What is foresee, sees?
It is a mistake to think this type of excitement lasts.
What is sexual excitement?
Screwtape says Wormwood has failed because the patient prays about his distraction instead of doing this.
What is ignore the distractions and pray as though they didn’t exist?
According to an English politician Democracy does not want these.
Who are great men?
“At bottom, every ideal of style dictates not only how we should say things but _____.”
What is the sort of things we may say?
“You will notice that the ___ are generally less willing to die than the middle-aged and the old”
What is the young?
Devils have made men proud of most vices, but not this.
What is cowardice?
Screwtape addresses Wormwood as this in the salutation of his final letter. (one of the two is good enough)
What are poppet and pigsnie?
Democracy can lead to the feeling that prompts a man to say this when he feels inferior.
What is “I’m as good as you.”?
Lewis uses the technique of diabolical this in writing the Screwtape Letters.
What is ventriloquism?
One of the Enemy’s motives for creating a dangerous world.
What is having a world in which moral issues really come to the point?
Screwtape describes the justice of Hell as this.
What is purely realistic and concerned only with results?