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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lawrence finally decide regarding his faith?
(a) A negative outcome does not lessen his faith in God.
(b) A positive outcome lessens his faith in God.
(c) A positive outcome does not lessen his faith in God.
(d) A negative outcome lessens his faith in God.

2. What anxiety did these negative feelings bring?
(a) Anxiety about other's pain.
(b) Anxiety about suffering.
(c) Anxiety about God's feelings for him.
(d) Anxiety about life after death.

3. For Lawrence, the presence of God exists how?
(a) Nearby.
(b) In the church.
(c) In his heart.
(d) Nearly as a tangible thing.

4. What else does he reject of the church?
(a) Scripted prayers.
(b) Sola fide.
(c) Sola scriptura.
(d) Liturgy.

5. How do these people believe a Christian's life moves?
(a) To a life of interest in God's desires.
(b) To a life of hope for a better ending with actions motivated by love alone.
(c) To a life of fear of punishment.
(d) To a life of a need for attention.

6. What aids in the development of a disciplined mind?
(a) Faith.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Reading.
(d) Honest confession to God.

7. Once he makes the decision from questions 96 and 97, what does he begin to do?
(a) Act seriously.
(b) Serve even more passionately.
(c) Worry about life after death.
(d) Serve more diligently.

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

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

10. Despite one's desperate needs, where does God remain?
(a) In church.
(b) Close by.
(c) On earth.
(d) In heaven.

11. What vow does Brother Lawrence make?
(a) He will become a priest.
(b) He will one day see his letters published.
(c) He will never see the face of God.
(d) He cannot imagine life apart from the presence of God.

12. To love God, who must a man first know?
(a) God.
(b) His neighbor.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Himself.

13. What does this revelation do for Lawrence?
(a) It fills him with fear.
(b) It fills his life with a renewed sense of peace.
(c) It fills his life with complications.
(d) It fills his life with more worries.

14. Who is the recipient trying to help?
(a) His friend.
(b) A fellow sister.
(c) Himselft.
(d) An ill neighbor.

15. What does Lawrence say about one's inclination?
(a) To slack off from one's personal disciplines.
(b) To pray more often as one ages.
(c) To work harder before death.
(d) To be nervous at the end of one's life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does one need to continue to do regarding one's mind?

2. How does Lawrence begin letter six?

3. What kind of prayer life does Lawrence recommend?

4. To whom does Brother Lawrence address this letter?

5. Whose law does Lawrence break?

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