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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Dallas Willard?

2. What did Doris Boyce help the author do?

3. What does the author say happens to people when they feel as if control is being lost?

4. Why does the author say most people are afraid of meditation?

5. During fasting, the close bond between fasting and what becomes clear, according to Foster?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the author says we should pray like children, what does he mean?

2. What is Foster's relationship with Ken and Doris Boyce?

3. How is Newburg Friends Church characterized?

4. What two characteristics does fasting need to be, according to Foster?

5. Who are the spiritual disciplines meant for, according to Foster?

6. In Christian belief, what types of fasts are there? Describe the differences.

7. What is the difference between spiritual and modern fasting, as described in "The Discipline of Fasting"?

8. What role does Bill Cathers play in the Introduction?

9. Explain the differences between verbal and nonverbal study.

10. How is fasting addressed in the Bible?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is the discipline of guidance explored and conveyed in Foster's work? Why do you think Foster wrote about it in this way? Do you think it is different from the other disciplines in any particular way?

Essay Topic 2

Why does Foster include foreshadowing in his chapter about study? What does Foster indicate by first giving readers a quote from the apostle Paul? Did you anticipate what the rest of the chapter ended up revealing?

Essay Topic 3

What effect does being part of the Quaker Church have on Foster's book? How does it add to the information in the book?

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