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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lawrence say about one's inclination?
(a) To slack off from one's personal disciplines.
(b) To work harder before death.
(c) To pray more often as one ages.
(d) To be nervous at the end of one's life.

2. What does Lawrence finally decide regarding his faith?
(a) A positive outcome lessens his faith in God.
(b) A negative outcome lessens his faith in God.
(c) A negative outcome does not lessen his faith in God.
(d) A positive outcome does not lessen his faith in God.

3. How does Lawrence begin his first letter?
(a) By telling the recipient to keep the contents.
(b) By imploring the recipient to destroy the contents.
(c) By introducing himself to the recipient.
(d) By praying for the recipient.

4. When does one need to focus?
(a) In church.
(b) When God is present.
(c) In times of devotion and prayer.
(d) Around temptations.

5. Once he makes the decision from questions 96 and 97, what does he begin to do?
(a) Serve even more passionately.
(b) Act seriously.
(c) Serve more diligently.
(d) Worry about life after death.

6. 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.

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

8. What can times of fasting or abstinence express?
(a) Our fragile humanity.
(b) Our love for God.
(c) Our impatience with God.
(d) Our fear of God.

9. To achieve this lifestyle, a man must willingly do what?
(a) Give to the needy.
(b) Deprive himself on occasion.
(c) Go to church.
(d) Help others.

10. How old is Lawrence, according to the author's note?
(a) Seventy.
(b) Ninety.
(c) Sixty.
(d) Eighty.

11. How old is the person Brother Lawrence addresses?
(a) Sixty-four.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Eighty.
(d) Ten.

12. How does this letter close?
(a) With a prayer of intercession.
(b) With a prayer.
(c) With desires to pray for what is done to another.
(d) With a prayer for the recipient's suffering.

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

14. To whom does Brother Lawrence address this letter?
(a) To a younger man.
(b) To his son.
(c) To a child.
(d) To an older man.

15. What aids in the development of a disciplined mind?
(a) Faith.
(b) Reading.
(c) Honest confession to God.
(d) Sleep.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lawrence begin letter six?

2. What vow does Lawrence make?

3. How does Lawrence end this letter?

4. For how long does this extended metaphor continue?

5. According to Lawrence, "We may make a chapel out of __________."

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