What is the best approach in structuring user testing for a task list design?

When using my new task list design, the user will need to complete 5 individual nest steps to complete their account. I want to evaluate in my user testing how successful the user will complete these steps.

Ideally I would want the user to look at my task list design and know that these are the next steps that they will need to complete.

I am wondering what is the best approach to structuring the scenarios in my testing so I can understand if completing these steps are intuitive for the user. They do not need to complete these is order.

Would I ask for example, "What will be your next steps? and see if they will start completing the next 5 steps one after the other automatically with little help? The issue with this is I will be testing on a prototype that might not intuitively link to the next step.

Or would I break down the steps into the 5 individual scenarios for the user but this seems as if I am helping the user complete the test and giving them emphasis that they would not necessarily have in the real world.