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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. 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.

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

5. What does Lawrence say about how a Christian's life begins, according to these people?
(a) It begins as a movement from service to God out a need for attention.
(b) It begins as a movement from service to God out of interest.
(c) It begins as a movement from service to God out of love.
(d) It begins as a movement from service to God out of fear of punishment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What vow does Lawrence make?

2. What does Lawrence finally decide regarding his faith?

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

4. To whom does Brother Lawrence address this letter?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lawrence have a sense of impending doom?

2. How does Lawrence handle sin? What is sin, according to Lawrence?

3. How does Lawrence seek God in all he does?

4. How does Letter 9 begin?

5. How does he use these negative feelings to help him?

6. How does Lawrence personify the soul?

7. What does Lawrence tell this man?

8. How does Lawrence sense God in his life?

9. When should a man commune with God? Why might he believe this?

10. How old is Lawrence at this point in the book? How old is the to whom he is writing?

(see the answer keys)

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