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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the author's profession?
(a) Social worker.
(b) Psychologist.
(c) Medical doctor.
(d) Quaker pastor.

2. What does Foster say is the focus during Christian meditation?
(a) Breathing.
(b) Faithfulness and obedience.
(c) Genesis.
(d) The self.

3. Foster writes that we should offer prayers to God for requests, as well as what?
(a) Supplication.
(b) Acknowledgment.
(c) Prayers for healing.
(d) Thanksgiving.

4. According to Christian belief, it is important to pray like who?
(a) A child.
(b) Each other.
(c) Mary, mother of Jesus.
(d) Ourselves.

5. According to Christian belief, what does Christian meditation hope to do to the mind?
(a) Take it out of the person.
(b) Fill it.
(c) Elevate it.
(d) Void it of thought.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the final step of study, based on Christian belief?

3. How many categories of spiritual disciplines are there?

4. Foster indicates that one's imagination can be used more for good than for evil at what point?

5. According to Foster, how does study benefit meditation?

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