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The Screwtape Letters Trivia Quiz

C. S. Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters" are a collection of letters of advice from a senior to a junior devil. What do you remember about them?

A multiple-choice quiz by ertrum. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
ertrum

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
336,814

Updated
Dec 03 21

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10

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Question 1 of 10

1. In his introduction to "The Screwtape Letters", Lewis says about devils that "They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a ________ or a ________ with the same delight." What words complete the sentence? Hint

warlock and witch

thief and murderer

fortune teller and astrologer

materialist and magician

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Question 2 of 10

2. Screwtape is a senior devil who has retired from the field of tempting humans, and writes these letters to his nephew, a junior devil. What is his nephew's name? Hint

Shagrat

Wormwood

Glubose

Slopheap

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Question 3 of 10

3. When Screwtape refers to Satan, what does he call him? Hint

Old Scratch

His Nefariousness

Our Father Below

The Dark Lord

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Question 4 of 10

4. How does Screwtape refer to the man being tempted? Hint

your patient

your fool

your victim

your soul

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Question 5 of 10

5. According to Screwtape, what is the safest road to Hell? Hint

a rough road

a cliff

an elevator

a smooth path

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Question 6 of 10

6. What does Screwtape call God? Hint

The Enemy

he never refers to him

God

The Other

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Question 7 of 10

7. What event starts to take place during the letters? Hint

The Great Depression

The Falklands War

The Hundred Years' War

World War II

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Question 8 of 10

8. Screwtape gets worked up into a diatribe about music and silence, both of which he detests, and gets turned into what kind of creature in the middle of it? Hint

a centipede

a beetle

a bat

a cockroach

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Question 9 of 10

9. In Hell, what are the choices available to you? Hint

eat or be eaten

rule or be ruled

suffer or torture

love or hate

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Question 10 of 10

10. At the end of the book, what happens to the human? Hint

he dies and goes to hell

he drives out his tempter

he gets married

he dies and goes to heaven

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

Answer: materialist and magician

"There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight."

"The Screwtape Letters" was first published as a serial in "The Guardian", an Anglican publication, starting in May, 1941. The book was published in 1942.
A sort of sequel, "Screwtape Proposes a Toast" was published in 1959.

2. Screwtape is a senior devil who has retired from the field of tempting humans, and writes these letters to his nephew, a junior devil. What is his nephew's name?

Answer: Wormwood

In his letters, Screwtape attempts to advise Wormwood how best to tempt the human he has been assigned to.

3. When Screwtape refers to Satan, what does he call him?

Answer: Our Father Below

Our Father Below is the head of the lowerarchy, including the secret police.

4. How does Screwtape refer to the man being tempted?

Answer: your patient

Screwtape consistently refers to the human that Wormwood is tempting as "your patient".

5. According to Screwtape, what is the safest road to Hell?

Answer: a smooth path

The job of the tempter is, more often than not, to keep the human thinking about himself, and to encourage small sins, not great ones. "The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."

6. What does Screwtape call God?

Answer: The Enemy

Just as Screwtape calls Satan "Our Father Below", he calls God "The Enemy".
C. S. Lewis has said that writing "The Screwtape Letters" was difficult for him because he had to force his thinking the wrong way 'round, and think from the devil's viewpoint.

7. What event starts to take place during the letters?

Answer: World War II

When Wormwood rhapsodizes about the terrors of the war, Screwtape rebukes him for becoming drunk on the human's emotions.

8. Screwtape gets worked up into a diatribe about music and silence, both of which he detests, and gets turned into what kind of creature in the middle of it?

Answer: a centipede

Screwtape is explaining how Hell is filled with noise, "Noise, the grand dynamism, the audible expression of all that is exultant, ruthless, and virile", and gets carried away.

9. In Hell, what are the choices available to you?

Answer: eat or be eaten

"We want cattle who can finally become food" Screwtape almost gets himself in trouble with the Secret Police because he says that the Enemy really loves the humans, and wants to adopt them as his children. This is, of course, a crime in the lowerarchy.

10. At the end of the book, what happens to the human?

Answer: he dies and goes to heaven

The patient dies in an air raid, and goes to heaven. Wormwood and Screwtape are tormented by losing the patient, though Screwtape consoles himself with the thought that he will probably be allowed to eat (at least some of) Wormwood.

Source: Author ertrum

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