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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lawrence view himself?
(a) As a servant.
(b) As a wretched beggar.
(c) As a slave.
(d) As a prince.

2. How does Lawrence see God?
(a) As a Knight.
(b) As a King.
(c) As a Doctor.
(d) As a Lawyer.

3. Of what must one be aware regarding God?
(a) His wrath.
(b) His omnipresence.
(c) His hope.
(d) His love.

4. What does Lawrence see as a key to his happiness and success?
(a) Beginning life in the fear of punishment phase.
(b) Beginning life in the interest in God's desires phase.
(c) Beginning life in the need for attention phase.
(d) Beginning life in the love motivation phase.

5. Does the recipient of the first letter honor Lawrence's wishes?
(a) Somewhat.
(b) Yes.
(c) Not at first.
(d) No.

6. Why does Lawrence begin his first letter in this way?
(a) So the recipient knows he cares about him.
(b) So no one else ever reads them.
(c) So the recipient knows who he is.
(d) So everyone can get his advice.

7. What vow does Lawrence make?
(a) To never do the slightest chore without feeling God's blessing on that chore.
(b) To never be unkind to others.
(c) To never be unhappy.
(d) To never listen to others.

8. According to Lawrence, "We may make a chapel out of __________."
(a) Our friends.
(b) the Church.
(c) Our home.
(d) Our heart.

9. How old is the person Brother Lawrence addresses?
(a) Sixty-four.
(b) Eighty.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Ten.

10. What does one need to continue to do regarding one's mind?
(a) Open it.
(b) Discipline it.
(c) Guide it.
(d) Heal it.

11. What does the person who needs help desire?
(a) To become famous.
(b) To be a better person.
(c) To achieve holiness faster than is appropriate.
(d) To have more faith.

12. What does Lawrence say about how a Christian's life begins, according to these people?
(a) It begins as a movement from service to God out of interest.
(b) It begins as a movement from service to God out a need for attention.
(c) It begins as a movement from service to God out of love.
(d) It begins as a movement from service to God out of fear of punishment.

13. By what did Lawrence feel hindered?
(a) A sense of fear of death.
(b) A sense of impending doom.
(c) A sense of loneliness.
(d) A sense of confusion.

14. When does one need to focus?
(a) When God is present.
(b) In times of devotion and prayer.
(c) In church.
(d) Around temptations.

15. To whom does Brother Lawrence address this letter?
(a) To his son.
(b) To an older man.
(c) To a child.
(d) To a younger man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lawrence reject of the church?

2. What vow does Brother Lawrence make?

3. What anxiety did these negative feelings bring?

4. In the opening of letter two, whose ideas does Lawrence describe?

5. Whose law does Lawrence break?

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