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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Guyon say the reader must do, like the Lord?
(a) Enjoy the good times.
(b) Love others.
(c) Accept the cross.
(d) Be kind.

2. The moment you feel God's presence lessening, what should you do?
(a) You must go to church.
(b) You must call a priest.
(c) You must sit still.
(d) You must call to Him or offer words of love or joy.

3. What should be severed?
(a) One's connection with others.
(b) Attention to the senses.
(c) The senses.
(d) One's requests regarding the senses.

4. Guyon warns against blaming who for specific circumstances?
(a) God.
(b) Yourself.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Man.

5. A passage of Scripture can be used as a way to quiet the mind and allow what?
(a) The Lord to answer your prayers.
(b) You to stand in the presence of the Lord.
(c) God to listen to you.
(d) You to speak your mind to the Lord.

6. What action will meld your desires with that of the Lord?
(a) Praying to God to answer your prayers.
(b) Plunging one's desires into the will of the Lord.
(c) Thinking about your desires.
(d) Closing your mind.

7. Why should one come to the Lord?
(a) To go to heaven.
(b) Because he or she is expected to.
(c) To look good to God.
(d) Only to please Him.

8. What is the objective when reading Scripture?
(a) To understand the rules of the church.
(b) To understand God.
(c) To sense the full meaning of the Scripture.
(d) To prove to God you are serious.

9. One's relationship with God will do what?
(a) Evolve.
(b) Grow weaker.
(c) Ebb and flow.
(d) Grow stronger.

10. Guyon predicts that carefully following the course of study she suggests will do what to one's prayer life?
(a) It will make it more important.
(b) It will make it a part of one's day.
(c) It will make it rich.
(d) It will make is tedious.

11. Guyon says that putting abandonment into practice begins by putting aside what?
(a) Your family's desires.
(b) Personal desires.
(c) Some of your desires.
(d) God's desires.

12. The most important aspect of this prayer life, according to Guyon, is what?
(a) To pray all the time.
(b) To be deeply committed to your prayers at all times.
(c) To say the same prayer in a repetitive manner.
(d) To remain with the Lord and to do so with a believing heart.

13. Guyon says that once you have come to a point of a regular prayer life, it's time to do what?
(a) Set off on a new path.
(b) Stay the course.
(c) Turn back.
(d) Take a break.

14. Guyon says that you might come to him seeking "real food," which is also acceptable and may be accomplished with what?
(a) Buying and eating unlevened bread.
(b) The Lord's Prayer.
(c) The Eucharist.
(d) A prayer of your own.

15. How is the prayer life Guyon describes simple to attain?
(a) If one is quiet.
(b) If one knows the way.
(c) If one has seen God.
(d) If one is a Christian.

Short Answer Questions

1. In loving the Lord, you will want to do what?

2. Does Guyon believe there is hope for overcoming this aspect of oneself?

3. Will opening to grace draw you closer to Him?

4. Who does Guyon quote saying, "Love, then do what you please?"

5. When focusing on overcoming this aspect, you are making them _________________ to overcome.

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