Chap. 1-3
Who is "The Enemy'?
The Trinity (God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit)
According to Screwtape, what is the simplest way to "prevent mortals from attending to the Enemy"? pg. 16
To "turn their gaze away from Him (God) and towards themselves."
According to Screwtape, what would Wormwood have to do to "almost win his man"? pg. 34
Make the world an end and faith a means.
What are the four categories that Screwtape divides the causes of human laughter into?
Joy, Fun, the Joke Proper, and Flippancy. (pg. 53)
According to Screwtape, what is the most "repellent and inexplicable trait" in the Enemy? pg. 72
Love, compassion. ("He really loves the hairless bipeds He has created and always gives back to them with His right hand what He has taken away with His left.")
Who is the "Father" that Screwtape refers to?
Satan
What does Screwtape refer to as the "discreditable episode"? pg. 18
The Incarnation.
BONUS: 100 points to whoever can tell me what the Incarnation is!
According to Screwtape, what was one of the reasons why Satan withdrew support from God the Father?
(pg. 37)
Because of God making humans as half spirit and half animal.
According to Screwtape, what is the safest road to Hell? pg. 61
"The gradual one- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turning, without milestones, without signposts."
According to Screwtape, can any natural phenomenon be in the favor of the demons?
What relation does Screwtape have to Wormwood?
Screwtape is Wormwood's uncle. pg. 4
"The anguish and bewilderment of a human soul."
FILL IN THE QUOTE:
"We want ______ who can finally become food; He wants _________ who can finally become sons."
a. animals; people b. cattle; servants
c. humans; men d. pigs; people
b. cattle; servants (pg.39)
According to Screwtape, how do the Christians describe "the Enemy"? What is the meaning/significance of this? pg. 60
The Christians describe the Enemy as one 'without whom nothing is strong'. This means that God provides the strength to do all things; apart from God, Christians can do nothing.
FILL IN THE QUOTE:
"The duty of planning the morrow's work is _______ duty; though its material is borrowed from the future, the duty, like all duties, is in the ________.
a. today's; present b. tomorrow's; future
c. present; future d. today's; past
a. today's; present (pg. 77)
According to Screwtape, when do newly born-again Christians become harder to tempt? pg. 8
When they get through the season of "initial dryness".
BONUS: extra 200 points to whoever can tell me what the season of "initial dryness" is!
FILL IN THE QUOTE:
"But do remember, Wormwood, that duty comes before __________."
a. work b. delight c. pleasure
d. happiness e. contentment
c. pleasure (pg. 21)
What does Screwtape tell Wormwood to keep his patient's mind off of? pg. 47
"the plain antithesis between True and False."
"If such a feeling is allowed to live, but not allowed to become irresistible and flower into real repentance, it has one invaluable tendency." pg. 58
What is this feeling and what is its invaluable tendency?
The feeling is dim uneasiness. Its invaluable tendency is that it increases the patient's reluctance to think about the Enemy.
According to Screwtape, when will the patient's tranquility do good for the demons? pg. 78
When the patient believes that the future is going to be agreeable, and once the future is present, his hopes and dreams are slashed.
"it occurs when the boy who has been enchanted in the nursery by Stories from the Odyssey buckles down to really learning greek." pg. 7
What is Screwtape comparing "Stories from the Odyssey" and "learning greek" to?
"Stories from the Odyssey": i.e., attending church once a week, listening to the Bible being preached (the bare minimum)
"learning greek": i.e., living out your faith and what the Bible teaches, personally pursuing a relationship with God.
FILL IN THE QUOTE:
"There is nothing like suspense and _________ for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy."
a. fear b. anger c. hope
d. love e. anxiety
e. anxiety (pg. 25)
According to Screwtape, who has made the pleasures of humanity? Are demons able to produce these pleasures?
God has made the pleasures of humanity. Demons cannot produce these pleasures- all they can do is twist the good of these pleasures into evil. (pg. 44)
"All mortals tend to turn into the thing that they are pretending to be." pg. 50
What is the example used in the text that supports this quote?
The example given is that if a Christian pretends to be non-Christian around his non-Christian friends (("no doubt he must very soon realize that his own faith is in direct opposition to the assumptions on which all the conversation of his new friends is based.")), then the Christian will eventually adopt all the habits and morals of his non-Christian friends. (("He will assume, at first only by his manner, but presently by his words, all sorts of cynical and sceptical attitudes which are not really his."))
According to Screwtape, what are the desirable states of mind in Wormwood's patient? (chap. 15)
"Tortured fear and stupid confidence." (pg. 75)