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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II, Chapter XII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Beginners suffering from gluttony will find it hard to travel the "Road of" what, according to St. John?
(a) Purity.
(b) Christianity.
(c) The Devil.
(d) Sin.

2. In Dark Night of the Soul, with what do slothful Christians have trouble aligning themselves?
(a) Sin.
(b) God's will.
(c) Hard work.
(d) A pure heart.

3. When a man searches for God in a divine way, the spirit and the soul of that person are transformed into what, according to Book II, Chapter V?
(a) A sinner.
(b) An innocent child.
(c) A new person.
(d) The likeness of God.

4. When the souls on earth are purged, with what do they become infused, according to Book II, Chapter XII?
(a) Love and wisdom.
(b) Guilt and suffering.
(c) Freedom and pain.
(d) Grace and redemption.

5. What two things cannot exist in the same person?
(a) Guilt and pride.
(b) God and the devil.
(c) The divine and the natural.
(d) Desire and goodwill.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Book I, Chapter VII, what do beginners do when they hear others being praised?

2. St. John writes that because of the goodness of God's divine wisdom, the soul actually feels as if it is being what?

3. In Book II, Chapter IX, what will a person become as he goes through a harder labor and more severe pain?

4. According to St. John, what kind of day is it when a man searches for God in a divine way instead of a human way?

5. What does St. John say a man has that will impede the process of unifying with God?

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