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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the author define sorrow?
(a) A remorseful acknowledgment that you have willfully sinned against God.
(b) The opposite of feeling sorry.
(c) Pitying someone in need.
(d) Feeling badly for the self.

2. In The Discipline of Solitude, it is mentioned that people will witness what if they practice solitude?
(a) Answered prayer.
(b) Visions.
(c) God's blessings.
(d) Inner peace.

3. The author ties together what concepts?
(a) Jesus' disciples and modern-day evagelicals.
(b) Celebration, joy, and strength.
(c) God's love and His discipline.
(d) Love, peace, and harmony.

4. How does Foster think many people feel when they are silent?
(a) Helpless.
(b) Peaceful.
(c) Hopeful.
(d) Useful.

5. According to Foster, who should be the object of worship?
(a) Emotions.
(b) Love.
(c) The person.
(d) Jesus.

6. According to The Discipline of Confession, who does God call to hear confessions?
(a) Jesus.
(b) Pastors.
(c) All Christians.
(d) No one.

7. God is always willing to receive a person's what, according to Christian belief?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Family.
(c) Worship.
(d) Donations.

8. According to the author, which is the most abused of the disciplines?
(a) Fasting.
(b) Worship.
(c) Submission.
(d) Guidance.

9. What is the final step to confession, according to Christian belief?
(a) Avoid any temptations leading to that sin.
(b) Writing it down.
(c) Thank God for forgiving.
(d) Telling all Christians you know.

10. Who states that "the confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works"?
(a) Augustine of Hippo.
(b) St. Paul.
(c) Ghandi.
(d) The author.

11. The author says that some acts of service are too small. Why?
(a) God wants us to clearly be helping other people.
(b) They just don't matter.
(c) No one notices.
(d) He doesn't say this at all.

12. According to Foster, what is the final discipline?
(a) Worshiping.
(b) Celebration.
(c) Fasting.
(d) Loving.

13. Foster writes that there are how many acts of submission?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Five.
(c) Ten.
(d) Seven.

14. Who leads the call to submission, as stated in The Discipline of Submission?
(a) Jesus.
(b) We do.
(c) The Christian community.
(d) Our pastors.

15. According to this chapter, we can find ways to serve God's people through what?
(a) Love and humility.
(b) Our free time.
(c) Our actions.
(d) Our professions.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, what keeps a person from confession?

2. Which discipline offers freedom from the need to always get your way, based on Christian belief?

3. What does Foster say is the heart of confession?

4. According to Foster, what is the final step to improved obedience through worship?

5. The description of guidance is opening the _____ to respond to God's directions.

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