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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of prayer life does Lawrence recommend?
(a) One of strong prayer.
(b) One of secret prayer.
(c) One of continual prayer.
(d) One of quiet prayer.

2. What else does he reject of the church?
(a) Sola fide.
(b) Liturgy.
(c) Scripted prayers.
(d) Sola scriptura.

3. For what does Lawrence encourage the recipient to strive?
(a) Christ-like behavior.
(b) Joy in all activities.
(c) Love for all.
(d) The presence of God even in old age.

4. With what does Lawrence admonish the man to continue?
(a) His personal disciplines.
(b) His good deeds.
(c) His attendance at church.
(d) His volunteer activities.

5. In this letter, how does Lawrence see God?
(a) As his friend.
(b) As his judge.
(c) As his counselor.
(d) As his father.

6. What does this revelation do for Lawrence?
(a) It fills his life with more worries.
(b) It fills him with fear.
(c) It fills his life with complications.
(d) It fills his life with a renewed sense of peace.

7. What does Lawrence finally decide regarding his love for God?
(a) A negative outcome lessens his love for God.
(b) A positive outcome does not lessen his love for God.
(c) A positive outcome lessens his love for God.
(d) A negative outcome does not lessen his love for God.

8. To love God, who must a man first know?
(a) God.
(b) Christianity.
(c) His neighbor.
(d) Himself.

9. What does Lawrence say about how a Christian's life begins, according to these people?
(a) It begins as a movement from service to God out of love.
(b) It begins as a movement from service to God out a need for attention.
(c) It begins as a movement from service to God out of fear of punishment.
(d) It begins as a movement from service to God out of interest.

10. Of what must one be aware regarding God?
(a) His omnipresence.
(b) His wrath.
(c) His hope.
(d) His love.

11. What skill never develops?
(a) Peace of mind.
(b) The true opening of one's mind.
(c) Disciplining one's minds.
(d) Understanding of one's mind.

12. What does the life Lawrence suggests do to sin?
(a) It scares it away.
(b) It stops it.
(c) It hinders it.
(d) It encourages it.

13. What does Lawrence do instead during those times?
(a) He goes for a walk.
(b) He sleeps.
(c) He eats.
(d) He spends those times and more in devotion.

14. What needs attention for one's whole life?
(a) The disciplining of one's mind.
(b) Making the mind peaceful.
(c) Understanding the mind.
(d) The opening of the mind.

15. How can one get to know this person?
(a) By spending much time in meditation on God.
(b) By talking to a priest.
(c) By meeting with a counselor.
(d) By reading the Bible.

Short Answer Questions

1. To achieve this lifestyle, a man must willingly do what?

2. In the opening of letter two, whose ideas does Lawrence describe?

3. What does Lawrence see as a key to his happiness and success?

4. What do times of fasting or abstinence cause a man to do?

5. How does Lawrence view himself?

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