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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does he receive during this war?
(a) Money.
(b) An injury.
(c) Knighthood.
(d) A medal.

2. When does he switch jobs?
(a) After fifteen years.
(b) After five years.
(c) After ten years.
(d) After a year.

3. Where should one seek God?
(a) At church.
(b) In others.
(c) At home.
(d) Anywhere.

4. Upon seeing an autumn tree, on what does he reflect?
(a) The age of the tree.
(b) The tree's eventual rebirth.
(c) It's beautiful leaves.
(d) The lovely birds in the trees.

5. With whom does he record conversations?
(a) Joseph de Vane.
(b) Brother Lawrence.
(c) Brother John.
(d) Joseph de Beaufort.

6. How does Lawrence feel that he enters God's presence?
(a) When he talks to the other priests.
(b) Through constant conversation with God.
(c) When he enters the church.
(d) Through the Lord's Prayer.

7. Shortly after this experience, where does he live?
(a) On a boat.
(b) In a small village.
(c) In a city.
(d) In the wilderness.

8. How old is Lawrence when Beaufort begins visiting him and recording their conversations?
(a) Early fifties.
(b) Early forties.
(c) Late fifties.
(d) Late forties.

9. Though many men question God's allowance of misery, what does Lawrence remark?
(a) God cannot stop one's misery.
(b) Only one's sins cause misery.
(c) Man must find happiness in misery.
(d) Only because of God's grace, does man enjoy any joy at all.

10. The first conversation occurs on what date?
(a) May 3, 1666.
(b) August 3, 1666.
(c) June 3, 1666.
(d) July 3, 1666.

11. Does one's journey of spiritual fulfillment occur in one step?
(a) No.
(b) Rarely.
(c) Sometimes.
(d) Yes.

12. Does Lawrence enjoy being in the presence of God?
(a) Yes.
(b) Sometimes.
(c) Usually.
(d) No.

13. Lawrence advises that the presence of God occurs more readily when what happens?
(a) One is focused.
(b) One listens to the advice of others.
(c) One achieves all three attributes.
(d) One achieves at least one attribute.

14. To achieve God's presence and true joy, a man must do what?
(a) Be enlightened.
(b) Control his own passions.
(c) Pray.
(d) Confess to a priest.

15. What important event does this man experience?
(a) Conversion.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Sainthood.
(d) Knighthood.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does this war take place?

2. Does the term the presence of God receive definition?

3. The fact becomes personal to him and he sees what?

4. Lawrence tells Beaufort that they may converse again only if what happens?

5. Why must one discipline one's thinking at all times?

(see the answer keys)

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