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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. He tells the recipient that one must pray for what?
(a) Thanksgiving for suffering.
(b) The needs of others as well as thanksgiving for suffering.
(c) Needs as well as with thanksgiving for suffering.
(d) His own needs as with thanksgiving for suffering.

3. How does Lawrence see God?
(a) In many different perspectives.
(b) In one specific way.
(c) As his father.
(d) As his friend.

4. Does Lawrence's Christian life begin the way these people explain?
(a) Almost.
(b) No.
(c) Somewhat.
(d) Yes.

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

6. For whom does Lawrence advise the recipient to live?
(a) His country.
(b) God.
(c) His family.
(d) Himself.

7. What does the life Lawrence suggests do to sin?
(a) It stops it.
(b) It scares it away.
(c) It encourages it.
(d) It hinders it.

8. How does Lawrence begin his life?
(a) In the fear of punishment phase.
(b) In the need for attention phase.
(c) In the interest in God's desires phase.
(d) In the love motivation phase.

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

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

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

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

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

14. How does Lawrence view himself?
(a) As a criminal.
(b) As a saint.
(c) As a sinner.
(d) As a child of God.

15. How does Lawrence begin letter six?
(a) In a conversational way.
(b) In an unusual way.
(c) By saying a prayer.
(d) By asking a question.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What aids in the development of a disciplined mind?

3. To love God, who must a man first know?

4. Once he makes the decision from questions 96 and 97, what does he begin to do?

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

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