View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say becomes an ingrained habit?
(a) Being lazy.
(b) Sin.
(c) Eating.
(d) Talking.

2. What law in the Bible applies to fasting?
(a) Genesis.
(b) Exodus.
(c) None.
(d) Leviticus.

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

4. What happens to the cravings for unhealthy and unnecessary items when one is fasting?
(a) Nothing.
(b) They disappear and are replaced by the desire to commune with God.
(c) It is unclear.
(d) They likely get worse.

5. Foster says that true prayer requires what of us?
(a) To let go of our own will.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Love for God.
(d) Friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Doris Boyce help the author do?

2. In Christian belief, what is the source of human transformation?

3. Who is Dallas Willard?

4. According to Christian belief, what three things does a person need to consider before meeting with God in meditation?

5. What is the author's goal through this book?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 232 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample