APOL 330 Quiz 1
APOL 330 Quiz 1 Liberty University
- Screwtape believes that the “patient” is a pure spirt.
- At the beginning of the dialogue, Screwtape states that sophisticated arguments are currently the best way to keep people out of the “enemy’s” clutches
- Distractions play a big role in Screwtape’s program of manipulation
- Arguments from science figure prominately in Screwtape’s methods of attack against Christianity
- Uncle Screwtape believes that Wormwood should despair because the “patient” has become a Christian.
- In general Screwtape thinks it best if people die in nursing homes as opposed to war
- Screwtape thinks it best if the patient thinks of the present fear as his appointed cross.
- Screwtape wants the “patient” to focus on his inner life.
- Screwtape thinks that all extremes, even extreme devotion to the “Enemy,” are to be encouraged.
- Screwtape suggests that the nature of the “Enemy” is to use the weapons of the Irresistible and the Indisputable.
- Screwtape believes that in civilized life domestic hatred usually expresses itself by saying things which would appear quite harmless on paper.
- Screwtape thinks that when it comes to prayer a good form of misdirection is to turn people’s gaze away from God and toward themselves.
- Screwtape thinks that a moderated religion is as good for his and Wormwood’s purposes as no religion at all.
- Screwtape believes that whenever there is prayer there is danger of “His” [the “Enemy’s”] own immediate action.
- Screwtape believes, at least at present, that it is best for Wormwood to conceal his identity to the “patient.”
- Wormwood is encouraged to help the “patient” avoid conflating patriotism and religion.
- At the end of the day, Screwtape reveals that he wants “servants that become slaves” while his Enemy (God) wants “servants who finally become sons”
- What does Screwtape mean when he refers to humans as amphibians?
- Screwtape is skeptical of Wormwood’s excitement concerning his patient’s lull in the “religious state” suggesting that God can use the dry/difficult times (troughs) as well as the exciting/dynamic seasons (peaks) and often enjoys using the former over the latter
- According to Screwtape, laughter can always be used to his office’s advantage
- Which of the following are ways in which Screwtape encourages Wormwood to exploit the “trough periods of the human undulation”?
- Screwtape thinks flippancy is a desirable quality to cultivate in humans for his and Wormwood’s purposes.
- Screwtape indicates that a positive outcome would be if Wormwood could eventually keep the “patient” up late at night, not roistering, but staring at a dead fire in a cold room.
- Screwtape believes that real pleasure is a good tool that Wormwood can use to seduce the “patient.”
- Screwtape believes that it is better for his party to get patients to think about the past than the future
Set 2
- Screwtape believes that rationality has been replaced with skepticism
- At the beginning of the dialogue, Screwtape states that sophisticated arguments are currently the best way to keep people out of the “enemy’s” clutches
- Distractions play a big role in Screwtape’s program of manipulation
- Arguments from science figure prominately in Screwtape’s methods of attack against Christianity
- Uncle Screwtape is more interested n trying to get people to consider the familiar over the unfamiliar than he is having people consider one worldview over another
- The local church proves to be a source of great anxiety for uncle Screwtape as he seeks to discourage and dissuade the believer
- Screwtape spends time educating Wormwood in the art of making the experience of church ordinary/mundane for the recent convert
- Screwtape would much rather do battle on the field of rational argument than he would on the prairies of emotion
- Fruitful/revelatory self-examination is an activity that Wormwood is encouraged to get his patient to do more of
- Introspection plays a big role in Screwtape’s campaign of misdirection
- Screwtape would love for “patients” to pray to an image of God that they have produced in their own mind
- Screwtape is very excited about the opportunities that war affords his cause, believing that all aspects of wartime conflict are useful in discouraging the saints
- Screwtape offers concentric circles as a helpful image that betrays his view of inner human The circles include an innermost will, his intellect coming next, and finally his fantasy
- Which of the following is NOT something that that Screwtape believes is helpful in misleading “patients”?
- Screwtape believes, at least at present, that it is best for wormwood to conceal his identity to the “patient.”
- Wormwood is encouraged to help the “patient” avoid conflating patriotism and
- At the end of the day, Screwtape reveals that he wants “servants that become slaves” while his Enemy (God) wants “servants who finally become sons”
- What does Screwtape mean when he refers to humans as amphibians?
- Screwtape is skeptical of Wormwood’s excitement concerning his patient’s lull in the “religious state” suggesting that God can use the dry/difficult times (troughs) as well as the exciting/dynamic seasons (peaks) and often enjoys using the former over the latter
- According to Screwtape, laughter can always be used to his office’s advantage
- Which of the following are ways in which Screwtape encourages Wormwood to exploit the “trough periods of the human undulation”?
- Screwtape can tolerate the patient attending church
- Screwtape always encourages Wormwood toward having his patient commit outrageous and spectacular acts of sin
- Screwtape indicates that action on the part of the patient in a positive direction is worse than
- Screwtape believes that it is better for his party to get patients to think about the past than the future