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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Perception and what are important aspects to study, based on The Discipline of Study?
(a) Transformation.
(b) Opinion.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Observation.

2. What will happen, according to Foster, once people become in communion with God?
(a) Prayer becomes deeper and stronger.
(b) They can channel God's words.
(c) We learn all about who He is.
(d) This is impossible while we are alive.

3. In The Door to Liberations, how are ingrained habits conquered?
(a) God's grace.
(b) Fasting.
(c) Self-injury.
(d) Legalistic discipline.

4. What are the four steps to study, according to Foster?
(a) Repetition, condensation, rehearsal, refraining.
(b) Repetition, concentration, comprehension, reflection.
(c) Start, repeat, endure, finish.
(d) First, second, third, fourth.

5. What is the author's relationship with Ken and Doris Boyce?
(a) They are his sister and brother-in-law.
(b) They are his biological parents.
(c) They are the author's longtime friends and surrogate parents.
(d) They are his children.

6. Foster indicates that one's imagination can be used more for good than for evil at what point?
(a) When a person decides to do just that.
(b) When the devil enters the imagination.
(c) When someone prays for them.
(d) When God becomes part of someone's life.

7. Why should we buy things, according to the author?
(a) Because we need things.
(b) Love.
(c) Impulse.
(d) Because we really want things.

8. According to Christian beliefs, what is fasting truly supposed to be about?
(a) The self.
(b) The Body of Christ.
(c) Removing what controls a person's spirit.
(d) The Bible.

9. According to The Discipline of Study, what becomes well-trained through repetition?
(a) The body.
(b) The spirit.
(c) The heart.
(d) The inner mind.

10. What sort of simplicity is the author referring to?
(a) Monetary spending.
(b) Spiritual simplicity.
(c) Our social circles.
(d) Our minds.

11. According to The Discipline of Study, what is the goal of all the disciplines?
(a) To be more like Jesus.
(b) To transform the total person.
(c) To love God more and more.
(d) To be a better person.

12. According to Christian belief, it is important to pray like who?
(a) Mary, mother of Jesus.
(b) Each other.
(c) Ourselves.
(d) A child.

13. According to Christian belief, what does Christian meditation hope to do to the mind?
(a) Void it of thought.
(b) Elevate it.
(c) Fill it.
(d) Take it out of the person.

14. The author begins to pray without what?
(a) Ceasing.
(b) The Bible.
(c) Breathing.
(d) Talking.

15. Under what circumstances does Jesus instruct his disciples to fast?
(a) When no one is looking.
(b) At nighttime.
(c) When he tells them to do so.
(d) When the time comes for Him to leave them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the final step of study, based on Christian belief?

2. How many spiritual disciplines does the author say there are?

3. What is the definition of fasting in the Bible?

4. What did Doris Boyce help the author do?

5. Why does fasting seem to be a desirable goal in the secular world, according to The Discipline of Fasting?

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