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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. In the opening of letter two, whose ideas does Lawrence describe?
(a) The Pope's.
(b) Many spiritual advisers.
(c) His own.
(d) God's.

2. What anxiety did these negative feelings bring?
(a) Anxiety about God's feelings for him.
(b) Anxiety about other's pain.
(c) Anxiety about suffering.
(d) Anxiety about life after death.

3. Keeping a rein on one's mind all the time helps what?
(a) Get one into heaven.
(b) One keep his or her faith.
(c) One attain the necessary discipline during prayer.
(d) Stop sinning.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the person who needs help desire?

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

3. To whom does Brother Lawrence address this letter?

4. How does Lawrence define sin?

5. How does Lawrence end the letter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What will aid one in having a disciplined mind?

2. What does Lawrence tell the recipient of Letter 9?

3. How does he use these negative feelings to help him?

4. How does Letter 6 begin?

5. What does Lawrence tell this man?

6. How does Lawrence handle sin? What is sin, according to Lawrence?

7. Why does Lawrence have a sense of impending doom?

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

9. How does Letter 9 begin?

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

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