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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the final step of study, based on Christian belief?
(a) Fourth.
(b) Finish.
(c) Refraining.
(d) Reflection.

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

5. What is the definition of fasting in the Bible?
(a) Doing without all solid and liquid foods.
(b) No meat.
(c) No water whatsoever.
(d) Only breakfast and dinner, no lunch.

6. What discipline makes change occur, according to the author?
(a) Guidance.
(b) Prayer.
(c) All of them.
(d) None of them.

7. Which of the following is the former missionary who prays over the author to have the hands of a writer?
(a) Doris Boyce.
(b) Clayton Carlson.
(c) Bill Cathers.
(d) Paul Newburg.

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

9. Christian belief states that something can change how a person thinks and imagines. What is it that changes how a person thinks and imagines?
(a) God's grace.
(b) Lots of studying.
(c) A person's hard work.
(d) How much television someone watches.

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

11. How many categories of spiritual disciplines are there?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Ten.
(d) Five.

12. Why does the author say most people are afraid of meditation?
(a) Because they have visions.
(b) It might make them believe in another religion.
(c) It has a stigma.
(d) Because they meet with God with no go-between.

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

14. Perception and what are important aspects to study, based on The Discipline of Study?
(a) Observation.
(b) Transformation.
(c) Opinion.
(d) Understanding.

15. What does the author say makes it difficult for a person to explore the spiritual life?
(a) The physical world.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Unanswered prayers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an example of verbal study?

2. According to Christian belief, why does Jesus want people to seek the truth?

3. According to Foster, what does being simple like God mean?

4. From the start, fasting needs to be what, according to Foster?

5. 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?

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