APOL 330 Quiz 1,2,3,4

APOL 330 Quiz 1,2,3,4

APOL 330 Quizzes Liberty University

APOL 330 Quiz 1 Liberty University

1. Screwtape believes that the “patient” is a pure spirt.
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 believes that Wormwood should despair because the “patient” has become a Christian.
6. In general Screwtape thinks it best if people die in nursing homes as opposed to war
7. Screwtape thinks it best if the patient thinks of the present fear as his appointed cross.
8. Screwtape wants the “patient” to focus on his inner life.
9. Screwtape thinks that all extremes, even extreme devotion to the “Enemy,” are to be encouraged.
10. Screwtape suggests that the nature of the “Enemy” is to use the weapons of the Irresistible and the Indisputable.
11. Screwtape believes that in civilized life domestic hatred usually expresses itself by saying things which would appear quite harmless on paper.
12. 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.
13. Screwtape thinks that a moderated religion is as good for his and Wormwood’s purposes as no religion at all.
14. Screwtape believes that whenever there is prayer there is danger of “His” [the “Enemy’s”] own immediate action.
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 religion.
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 thinks flippancy is a desirable quality to cultivate in humans for his and Wormwood’s purposes.
23. 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.
24. Screwtape believes that real pleasure is a good tool that Wormwood can use to seduce the “patient.”
25. Screwtape believes that it is better for his party to get patients to think about the past than the future

APOL 330 Quiz 2 Liberty University

1. According to Screwtape if a man can’t be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighborhood to find the church that “suits” him
2. Screwtape thinks that Wormwood should try to get the patient to go to a church that uses a lectionary.
3. When it comes to the temptation of gluttony, Screwtape limits his focus to excess and neglects delicacy
4. Screwtape thinks that vanity is a good tool for helping to turn men into gluttons.
5. Screwtape thinks that mere excess in food is much more valuable than delicacy.
6. Screwtape suggests that the chief use of excess in food is a kind of artillery preparation for attacks on pride.
7. According to Screwtape, “The Enemy described a married couple as ‘one soul.’”
8. Screwtape suggests that God’s real motive for creating humans is Love.
9. Screwtape thinks that marriage is completely useless for his and Wormwood’s plans.
10. According to Screwtape, “The real use of the infernal Venus is, no doubt, as wife.”
11. Screwtape believes that the earliest believers were converted by a single historical fact (the Passion) and a single theological doctrine (Christology)
12. Screwtape encourages investigations of the historical Jesus
13. Screwtape desires for Wormwood’s patient to not think of himself as belonging to “we Christians” as much as “his set”
14. Screwtape believes that a “patient” having a short life is usually in his and Wormwood’s best interest.
15. The ambiguity of the word “love” can be used to make people believe that because of “love” they have solved problems that they have only pretended to deal with or have essentially kicked down the road
16. Screwtape suggests that false spirituality is always to be encouraged.
17. Screwtape believes that both an answered prayer and an unanswered prayer can be used to his advantage
18. Screwtape wants people/patients to understand how their generation relates to previous generations
19. Screwtape makes it clear that the patient’s immediate death is not a win for him or Wormwood
20. In chapter 28, Screwtape wants Wormwood to put the “patient” in physical danger.
21. What does Screwtape say knits a man to the world in chapter 25?
22. What does Screwtape mean by “mere Christianity” in chapter 25?
23. What is meant in chapter 27 about having people considering the “Historical Point of View”?
24. Screwtape is ultimately pleased with Wormwood’s performance
25. Screwtape and Wormwood’s plan was successful in the end because the “patient” died.

APOL 330 Quiz 3 Liberty University

1. Christians believe that God invented the universe while Pantheists believe that God animates the universe or that the universe almost is God
2. Lewis argues that real things are simple
3. Lewis suggests that when someone quarrels he is appealing to some kind of standard of behaviour which he expects the other man to know about.
4. “Older thinkers” understood the Law of Nature as the Law of Human Nature
5. Lewis believes that the idea that the Law of Nature or decent behavior is known to all men is unsound because different civilizations and different ages have had very different moralities
6. What is the difference between bodies and their biological laws and humans and the Law of Human Nature?
7. Lewis argues that none of us are really keeping the Law of Nature
8. Lewis thought that most people generally practise the sort of behavior they expect from other people.
9. Having a desire to do good (moral awareness) and believing that you are obligated to do good (moral obligation) are really the same thing
10. The two facts that behave as a foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in for Lewis are:
11. Lewis uses the terms “Moral Law” and “Rule of Decent Behavior” to essentially express the same concept.
12. When it comes to moral law and instincts, moral law tells us the tune we have to play while our instincts are merely the keys
13. Moral law is not any one instinct or set of instincts
14. Lewis asserts that the Moral Law is apt to change over time (unlike mathematics, which is a real truth).
15. The laws of nature (like gravity) tell you what will happen while the Law of Human Nature tells you what human being ought to do and not do
16. Usefulness/pragmatism is a good indication of what is morally right
17. Lewis holds that when asked “what is the point of behaving in such a way?” a good response is “in order to benefit society”
18. The Law of Human Nature must be something beyond/above the actual facts of human behavior
19. Lewis believes that a materialist/naturalist view of the universe’s origins is a relatively new phenomenon
20. Lewis identifies two distinct views of the origins of the universe. They are:
21. Which of the following best summarizes Lewis’ understanding of what science is capable of?
22. What is the one thing in the whole universe which we can know more about than we could learn from external observation according to Lewis?
23. Lewis says that there are but two bits of hard evidence for the “Somebody” : The universe He has made and the Moral Law which He has put into our minds
24. S. Lewis believes that a minority of people in the world believe in some kind of God or gods, while the majority do not
25. Believing that God is beyond good and evil is a characteristic of Pantheism

APOL 330 Quiz 4 Liberty University

1. When it comes to moral behaviors, C. S. Lewis prefers talking about rules and obedience, not “ideals” and “idealism.”
2. According to Lewis, “The human machine goes wrong” both when human individuals drift apart from one another and when things go wrong inside the individual
3. Morality is concerned with harmony between individuals and within oneself, but not interested in the general purpose of human life
4. When it comes to cardinal virtues vs theological virtues, cardinal virtues are those which all civilized people recognize while theological virtues are those that only Christians know about
5. According to Lewis virtues are really only applicable to this present life
6. In Lewis’ view, the cardinal virtue of temperance requires that Christians give up drinking
7. Christ did not come to preach any brand new morality
8. Lewis believes that if a society existed that could be visited [in the present] that was like New Testament Christianity, very few would like the whole thing. Instead, they would be attracted to bits and pieces
9. Charity, while important, is not an essential part of Christian morality for Lewis
10. Lewis argues that we will never get a Christian society unless most of us become Christian individuals. This means that believers must prioritize personal evangelism for now and hold off on societal engagement for later
11. Psychoanalysis itself is not contradictory to Christianity
12. When it comes to human progress, psychoanalysis is prepared and equipped to improve all of mankind’s moral decision making
13. Lewis states “Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either”
14. Which of the following is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues (trumped only by “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself”)
15. “Christianity is almost the only one of the great religions which thoroughly approves of the
16. Lewis believes that when it comes to sex, the real conflict is not between Christianity and nature, but between Christian principles and other principles in the control of ‘nature.’
17. Unchastity is the supreme vice
18. Lewis asserts that the Christian rule of Chastity is the same thing as the social rule of ‘modesty.’
19. Being in love is a good thing, but it is not he best thing
20. Cultivating the thrill of good things so as to prolong the excitement it brings is encouraged by Lewis
21. Pride is purely spiritual and consequently it is far more subtle and deadly
22. Lewis believes that Christians who practice hope in the next world are more useful in the present world
23. Lewis believed that if you aim at earth you might just get heaven.
24. According to Lewis, the human mind is completely ruled by reason
25. Lewis thinks it is essential to remember/discover/know the moment that you reached the following conclusion about faith in God—“You must do this, I can’t” (i.e. your conversion)