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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In this letter, how does Lawrence see God?
(a) As his friend.
(b) As his judge.
(c) As his counselor.
(d) As his father.

3. How does this letter close?
(a) With desires to pray for what is done to another.
(b) With a prayer for the recipient's suffering.
(c) With a prayer of intercession.
(d) With a prayer.

4. What skill never develops?
(a) The true opening of one's mind.
(b) Understanding of one's mind.
(c) Peace of mind.
(d) Disciplining one's minds.

5. 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) His own needs as with thanksgiving for suffering.
(d) Needs as well as with thanksgiving for suffering.

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

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

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

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

10. Because of the shortness of life remaining for both men, Lawrence does what?
(a) Expresses his thoughts very clearly.
(b) Encourages the man to take care of himself.
(c) Points out the greater need for communion with God.
(d) Tells the man of heaven.

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

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

13. How old is Lawrence, according to the author's note?
(a) Ninety.
(b) Sixty.
(c) Eighty.
(d) Seventy.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does Lawrence admonish the man to continue?

2. How old is the person Brother Lawrence addresses?

3. To achieve this lifestyle, a man must willingly do what?

4. In closing, what does Lawrence promise to do?

5. What vow does Brother Lawrence make?

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