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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What else does he reject of the church?

2. Whose law does Lawrence break?

3. What does the life Lawrence suggests do to sin?

4. What does the person who needs help desire?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lawrence tell this man?

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

3. How does Letter 9 begin?

4. How does Lawrence sense God in his life?

5. How does Lawrence learn God's plan for him?

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

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

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

9. How does Lawrence see God? How does he see himself, compared to God?

10. Why does Lawrence put more pressure on the man the commune with God?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

God always answers.

Part 1) How is Lawrence so confident about this? How do his other beliefs support this belief?

Part 2) What is important to remember about this idea that God always answers? What is difficult about this statement?

Part 3) How does this statement encourage the recipients of Lawrence's letters, the readers of this book, and Lawrence himself?

Essay Topic 2

One must strive for the presence of God.

Part 1) What is meant by the presence of God? Is this the same for everyone? Why or why not?

Part 2) How does one strive for the presence of God? How is this connected to one's journey to spiritual fulfillment?

Part 3) How is this theme throughout this book? Why is this so important to Lawrence? How does this theme affect Lawrence? How might it affect Beaufort and others who read Lawrence's works?

Essay Topic 3

Lawrence discusses faith.

Part 1) What does Lawrence say about faith? Why is faith important?

Part 2) How does Lawrence's view of faith reinforce his other beliefs?

Part 3) What are the steps to spiritual fulfillment? What is faith's connection to other steps in the process of spiritual fulfillment?

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