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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. What is the purpose of modern fasting?

2. Foster writes that we should offer prayers to God for requests, as well as what?

3. How many spiritual disciplines does the author say there are?

4. What is the author's profession?

5. Which of the following is the former missionary who prays over the author to have the hands of a writer?

Short Essay Questions

1. Based on Christian belief, how are studying and meditation different?

2. What happens when people truly pray, according to Foster?

3. What must a person do to meditate effectively, according to Christian belief?

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

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

6. Foster writes that the main difference between Christian and Eastern forms of meditation is what?

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

8. Based on what Foster writes, how is meditation different from reading the scriptures?

9. What are the three inner attitudes of simplicity, as stated in Christian doctrine?

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

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

Do you think the loss of his parents at a relatively early age may have had an impact on Foster? If so, how do you think it would have affected his profession and the content he included in his book?

Essay Topic 3

Explain the difference between denotation and connotation. How does this relate to the word "submission" in terms of Foster's book?

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