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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. With what should one not get bogged down?
(a) The requests made by God.
(b) Your thoughts about God.
(c) Your own faults and failures.
(d) The sins of others.

2. What prayer prompts activity?
(a) The prayer for others.
(b) The prayer of action.
(c) The Lord's Prayer.
(d) The prayer of silence.

3. This activity takes the place of whose activity?
(a) Others.
(b) Yours.
(c) The Spirit's.
(d) God's.

4. What should the new Christian be taught?
(a) To pray and turn inward.
(b) The stories of Jesus Christ.
(c) The Creeds.
(d) The Ten Commandments.

5. She explains that you will come to a point at which God immediately shows you even the smallest of sins and that you have to do what?
(a) Remember your sins.
(b) Forget the sin.
(c) Accept the reproof for that sin.
(d) Forgive yourself.

Short Answer Questions

1. Is Guyon's instruction for those who continue to seek the Lord with an "active" soul?

2. She explains the relationship between the soul and Spirit by using what?

3. She says that once the Spirit is in tune with God, what follows?

4. Guyon says that you must be willing to become one with whom?

5. What should one do when one is tempted?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Guyon say about intercession?

2. What does Guyon say about becoming comfortable with outward experiences?

3. What is one expected to feel at a time of confession? What does Guyon say about this?

4. What does Guyon say about one's feelings toward his or her own sins compared to God's feelings about sin?

5. What does Guyon have to say about the "prayer of silence"?

6. What does Guyon have to say about activity prompted by the Spirit? How does she illustrate this point?

7. What does Guyon have to say about passivity?

8. Describe how this book ends.

9. What is Guyon's warning against ritual prayer?

10. To what does Guyon compare the wisdom of God?

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