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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To achieve this lifestyle, a man must willingly do what?
(a) Go to church.
(b) Help others.
(c) Give to the needy.
(d) Deprive himself on occasion.

2. How does Lawrence begin his first letter?
(a) By introducing himself to the recipient.
(b) By telling the recipient to keep the contents.
(c) By imploring the recipient to destroy the contents.
(d) By praying for the recipient.

3. What can times of fasting or abstinence express?
(a) Our impatience with God.
(b) Our love for God.
(c) Our fragile humanity.
(d) Our fear of God.

4. In closing, what does Lawrence promise to do?
(a) Pray for the man.
(b) Help the man to heaven.
(c) Send a gift to the man.
(d) Pray for his suffering.

5. How does Lawrence define sin?
(a) As anything contrary to God's plan for his life.
(b) As anything contrary to the desires of the Church.
(c) As anything that goes against the Ten Commandments.
(d) As anything that hurts others.

6. What does Lawrence do instead during those times?
(a) He spends those times and more in devotion.
(b) He sleeps.
(c) He eats.
(d) He goes for a walk.

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

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

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

10. With what does letter nine begin?
(a) A supplication from Brother Lawrence.
(b) A convesational tone.
(c) A request by Brother Lawrence.
(d) A prayer for the needy.

11. For how long did Lawrence feel hindered by negative feelings?
(a) For many years.
(b) For a month.
(c) For a time.
(d) For a second.

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

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

14. With what does Lawrence admonish the man to continue?
(a) His volunteer activities.
(b) His personal disciplines.
(c) His attendance at church.
(d) His good deeds.

15. What do times of fasting or abstinence cause a man to do?
(a) Rely on God in new and extended ways.
(b) Worry about his life.
(c) Call to God.
(d) Suffer needlessly.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lawrence see God?

2. Why does Lawrence begin his first letter in this way?

3. Despite one's desperate needs, where does God remain?

4. What does the life Lawrence suggests do to sin?

5. For what does Lawrence encourage the recipient to strive?

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