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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who should be the one praying?
(a) You.
(b) Those who love you.
(c) The Lord.
(d) The priest.

2. Guyon says it's beyond this point that you find another place where you can experience what?
(a) God's love.
(b) Stronger prayers.
(c) New prayers.
(d) Continual prayer.

3. She then explains the ability to be active while doing what?
(a) Work.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Praying.
(d) Resting.

4. With what should one not get bogged down?
(a) The requests made by God.
(b) Your thoughts about God.
(c) Your own faults and failures.
(d) The sins of others.

5. There is a level at which the Lord will bestow ____________ at your confession.
(a) His love.
(b) His understanding.
(c) His peace.
(d) His patience.

6. She concludes the thought by saying that this path requires nothing of you and that the best of God is the ___________ to reach.
(a) Scariest.
(b) Hardest.
(c) Easiest.
(d) Most fun.

7. What is the purpose of this intercession?
(a) To guide you in keeping with God's will.
(b) To help you guide others to God's will.
(c) To make you perfect in keeping with God's will.
(d) To help you keep with God's will.

8. She says that when your mind wanders, what should you do?
(a) Allow it to wander freely.
(b) Do not waste your time being distressed because of your faults.
(c) See to where it wanders.
(d) Force your mind to stop wandering and return to a place of focus.

9. What must happen for the Spirit to act?
(a) You must tell others to give up their activities.
(b) You must willingly give up your own activities.
(c) You must tell the Spirit to act.
(d) You must believe the Spirit can act.

10. She warns that you are not to do anything except pull yourself inward toward a closer relationship with the Lord and allow Him to do what?
(a) The rest.
(b) Answer your prayers.
(c) Help you.
(d) Talk to you.

11. You should ____________ the drawing of the Lord.
(a) Worry about.
(b) Fight against.
(c) Fear.
(d) Yield to.

12. To what does Guyon compare temptation?
(a) Eating chocolate.
(b) Something that frightens a child.
(c) The devil.
(d) The rules of the Church.

13. What prayer prompts activity?
(a) The prayer of action.
(b) The prayer for others.
(c) The prayer of silence.
(d) The Lord's Prayer.

14. Activity must be driven by what?
(a) The Spirit rather than the self.
(b) The Church.
(c) The members of the Church.
(d) The self rather than the Spirit.

15. If the answer to #160 is correct, do you have any real cause for worry?
(a) Sometimes.
(b) Rarely.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.

Short Answer Questions

1. What should one do after saying a prayer?

2. Guyon says that ultimate goal of a Christian should be what?

3. She says that there will come a point at which you simply hate _______ as God hates ________.

4. She explains that a person who pulls himself inward will find himself drawn farther inward by what?

5. Guyon admonishes that you must remember that this action happens when?

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