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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Discipline of Prayer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What served as a guide for prayer for the author?
(a) St. Francis of Assisi.
(b) His heart.
(c) The Bible.
(d) His parents.

2. What happens when people truly pray, according to Christian belief?
(a) Miracles happen.
(b) They begin to match God's thoughts and desires.
(c) They are given divine visions.
(d) It is unclear.

3. How much longer was this edition written after its first publication?
(a) One hundred years.
(b) Two decades.
(c) Six months.
(d) There is only one publication.

4. In Christian belief, what is the source of human transformation?
(a) The soul.
(b) God.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) The mind.

5. Foster writes that Eastern meditation hopes to do what to the mind?
(a) Get rid of it.
(b) Fill it up with knowledge.
(c) Transform it.
(d) Empty it.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Discipline of Meditation says that meditation differs from the scriptures in what way?

2. What will happen, according to Foster, once people become in communion with God?

3. Who of the following was an influence on the author's writing?

4. In the book, Foster states that something happens to people when they think they have become "the right kind of person". What is it that happens to people?

5. What is the first of the disciplines?

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