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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Suffer needlessly.
(d) Call to God.

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

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

4. He admonishes the man about what?
(a) The importance of praying in all things.
(b) The importance of faith.
(c) The importance of love.
(d) The importance of thankingGod.

5. What kind of prayer life does Lawrence recommend?
(a) One of strong prayer.
(b) One of quiet prayer.
(c) One of secret prayer.
(d) One of continual prayer.

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

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

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

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

10. How does Lawrence end the letter?
(a) With love and peace for the recipient.
(b) With thanks to God for blessing his life.
(c) With a prayer for his friend.
(d) With thanks to his friend.

11. Keeping a rein on one's mind all the time helps what?
(a) Get one into heaven.
(b) Stop sinning.
(c) One keep his or her faith.
(d) One attain the necessary discipline during prayer.

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

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

14. How does Lawrence end this letter?
(a) Asking for prayers.
(b) Praying for himself.
(c) Thanking the recipient.
(d) Thanking God.

15. How does Lawrence describe God as ruler?
(a) Harsh and cruel.
(b) Merciful and benevolent.
(c) Demanding and fearsome.
(d) Sweet and kind.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lawrence begin his life?

2. How does Lawrence view himself?

3. Should the answer to number 113 be done violently or out of habit?

4. What does Lawrence do instead during those times?

5. What does the person who needs help desire?

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