APOL 330 Quiz 1

APOL 330 Quiz 1 Liberty University

1. Screwtape believes that rationality has been replaced with skepticism
2. 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
3. Distractions play a big role in Screwtape’s program of manipulation
4. Arguments from science figure prominately in Screwtape’s methods of attack against Christianity
5. 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
6. The local church proves to be a source of great anxiety for uncle Screwtape as he seeks to discourage and dissuade the believer
7. Screwtape spends time educating Wormwood in the art of making the experience of church ordinary/mundane for the recent convert
8. Screwtape would much rather do battle on the field of rational argument than he would on the prairies of emotion
9. Fruitful/revelatory self-examination is an activity that Wormwood is encouraged to get his patient to do more of
10. Introspection plays a big role in Screwtape’s campaign of misdirection
11. Screwtape would love for “patients” to pray to an image of God that they have produced in their own mind
12. 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
13. 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
14. Which of the following is NOT something that that Screwtape believes is helpful in misleading “patients”?
15. Screwtape believes, at least at present, that it is best for wormwood to conceal his identity to the “patient.”
16. Wormwood is encouraged to help the “patient” avoid conflating patriotism and
17. 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”
18. What does Screwtape mean when he refers to humans as amphibians?
19. 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
20. According to Screwtape, laughter can always be used to his office’s advantage
21. Which of the following are ways in which Screwtape encourages Wormwood to exploit the “trough periods of the human undulation”?
22. Screwtape can tolerate the patient attending church
23. Screwtape always encourages Wormwood toward having his patient commit outrageous and spectacular acts of sin
24. Screwtape indicates that action on the part of the patient in a positive direction is worse than
25. Screwtape believes that it is better for his party to get patients to think about the past than the future