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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. He admonishes the man about what?
(a) The importance of faith.
(b) The importance of love.
(c) The importance of thankingGod.
(d) The importance of praying in all things.

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

3. 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 interest.
(d) It begins as a movement from service to God out of fear of punishment.

4. 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.

5. Whose law does Lawrence break?
(a) God's.
(b) His country's.
(c) Nature's.
(d) The Church's.

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

7. What does Lawrence reject of the church?
(a) The Pope.
(b) The routines.
(c) The priesthood.
(d) The creeds.

8. How does Lawrence define sin?
(a) As anything contrary to God's plan for his life.
(b) As anything that goes against the Ten Commandments.
(c) As anything that hurts others.
(d) As anything contrary to the desires of the Church.

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

10. Who is the recipient trying to help?
(a) Himselft.
(b) A fellow sister.
(c) His friend.
(d) An ill neighbor.

11. According to Lawrence, "We may make a chapel out of __________."
(a) Our heart.
(b) Our home.
(c) the Church.
(d) Our friends.

12. Does the recipient of the first letter honor Lawrence's wishes?
(a) Somewhat.
(b) Not at first.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

13. How does Lawrence describe God as ruler?
(a) Merciful and benevolent.
(b) Sweet and kind.
(c) Demanding and fearsome.
(d) Harsh and cruel.

14. He tells the recipient that one must pray for what?
(a) His own needs as with thanksgiving for suffering.
(b) Needs as well as with thanksgiving for suffering.
(c) Thanksgiving for suffering.
(d) The needs of others as well as thanksgiving for suffering.

15. For Lawrence, the presence of God exists how?
(a) Nearly as a tangible thing.
(b) Nearby.
(c) In the church.
(d) In his heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does Lawrence admonish the man to continue?

2. How does Lawrence learn God's plan for him?

3. What does Lawrence admonish the recipient to do?

4. Despite one's desperate needs, where does God remain?

5. Does Lawrence's Christian life begin the way these people explain?

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