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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Does any new advice remain under the sun?
(a) Yes.
(b) No.
(c) Probably not.
(d) Most likely.

4. Whose law does Lawrence break?
(a) His country's.
(b) God's.
(c) Nature's.
(d) The Church's.

5. For how long does this extended metaphor continue?
(a) For two paragraphs
(b) For a paragraph.
(c) For a few sentences.
(d) For several paragraphs.

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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 more worries.
(d) It fills his life with complications.

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

13. What does Lawrence admonish the recipient to do?
(a) Give up on this woman.
(b) Put all his energy into helping this person.
(c) Not waste time that he could use for serving the Lord.
(d) Help his sister in need.

14. How does Lawrence learn God's plan for him?
(a) He dreams it.
(b) He talks to a priest.
(c) With much prayer and contemplation.
(d) He sees it in a sign.

15. How can one get to know this person?
(a) By meeting with a counselor.
(b) By reading the Bible.
(c) By talking to a priest.
(d) By spending much time in meditation on God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What needs attention for one's whole life?

2. What does Lawrence finally decide regarding his love for God?

3. What anxiety did these negative feelings bring?

4. How does Lawrence begin his first letter?

5. What kind of prayer life does Lawrence recommend?

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