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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Teresa say her words come from?
(a) the Saints
(b) the visions she has
(c) the Bible
(d) the Beloved

2. What condition does Teresa suggest a soul is in when it turns away from a life of prayer?
(a) being free to examine itself
(b) in a state of grave error
(c) in a world of confusion
(d) being outside not able to find the door

3. What worries Teresa about being able to quote other writers?
(a) her need to appear scholarly
(b) her accidentally stealing their words
(c) her failing memory
(d) her lack of a reference library

4. What does Teresa suggest might be offered as a temptation in the second dwelling?
(a) lasting peace if one does not progress beyond
(b) the sense that the sould is right with God
(c) seemingly virtuous worldly alternatives
(d) a feeling that one has arrived

5. What does Teresa say the condition of the soul is in the First Dwelling?
(a) looking for the way back outside
(b) confused by being in a strange place
(c) only just beginning to learn to pray
(d) like that of a small child

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Teresa say happens to those who dwell outside the castle?

2. What does she say is at the center of the castle?

3. How does Teresa identify a period of spiritual aridity?

4. Why is Teresa undertaking the writing of this book?

5. What does Teresa stress at the beginning of her treatise?

(see the answer key)

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