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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Guyon's warning regarding the imagination?
(a) It is always dangerous.
(b) It will still be active.
(c) It is powerful.
(d) It will be destroyed.

2. To what kind of person will godliness come?
(a) The person who truly abandons himself to the Lord.
(b) Only the bad.
(c) Those who love the devil.
(d) The person who wants to be a god.

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

4. To what does "Your will be done" refer?
(a) God's will that He can love all his children.
(b) Your will that you can love God.
(c) Your will that God loves you.
(d) God's will that all His children love him.

5. How must one come to the Lord?
(a) Confessing He knows everything and you know nothing.
(b) Quietly, humbly, and confessing that He is everything and you are nothing.
(c) Quickly and quietly.
(d) Slowly and patiently.

Short Answer Questions

1. You can never fully overcome what?

2. When choosing a passage of scripture, what does Guyon recommend?

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

4. Guyon warns against blaming who for specific circumstances?

5. Guyon defines abandonment as what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Guyon say is merely a first step? What is the next step?

2. What is one way a beginner could come to Christ?

3. What does Guyon say about "dry spells"?

4. How must one's abandonment go one step further?

5. What does Guyon say about the ability to turn inward to find Christ?

6. Why does Guyon quote St. Augustine?

7. What does Guyon say regarding the Lord's Prayer?

8. What does Guyon warn about overcoming selfish desires?

9. What does Guyon say regarding the reason why one might come to seek a relationship with God?

10. What happens when one looks inwardly for God?

(see the answer keys)

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