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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. Of what must one be aware regarding God?
(a) His omnipresence.
(b) His love.
(c) His wrath.
(d) His hope.

2. 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 interest in God's desires phase.
(c) Beginning life in the love motivation phase.
(d) Beginning life in the fear of punishment phase.

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

4. Does the recipient of the first letter honor Lawrence's wishes?
(a) Yes.
(b) Somewhat.
(c) Not at first.
(d) No.

5. What does Lawrence finally decide regarding his love for God?
(a) A negative outcome does not lessen his love for God.
(b) A positive outcome lessens his love for God.
(c) A positive outcome does not lessen his love for God.
(d) A negative outcome lessens his love for God.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Brother Lawrence address this letter?

2. What does the person who needs help desire?

3. What kind of prayer life does Lawrence recommend?

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

5. For how long does this extended metaphor continue?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Letter 9 begin?

4. How does Lawrence personify the soul?

5. How is Lawrence's Christian path different from many spiritual advisers' descriptions?

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

7. What does Lawrence tell the recipient of Letter 8 about new advice?

8. How does Lawrence sense God in his life?

9. How does Lawrence close the letter?

10. How can someone really sense the need he or she has for God?

(see the answer keys)

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