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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Brother Lawrence address this letter?

2. For how long does this extended metaphor continue?

3. What does one need to continue to do regarding one's mind?

4. Whose law does Lawrence break?

5. Does the recipient of the first letter honor Lawrence's wishes?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lawrence view himself, which reflects his view that God is his judge?

2. How does Lawrence personify the soul?

3. Why does Lawrence put more pressure on the man the commune with God?

4. What does Lawrence tell this man?

5. How does Lawrence seek God in all he does?

6. How does Lawrence see God? How does he see himself, compared to God?

7. What does Lawrence tell the recipient of Letter 8 about new advice?

8. How can someone really sense the need he or she has for God?

9. How does Letter 9 begin?

10. How is Lawrence's Christian path different from many spiritual advisers' descriptions?

(see the answer keys)

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