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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Teresa say makes the Prayer of Recollection necessary?
(a) when one has left the convent
(b) when one has picked up bad habits
(c) when one begins to forget how to pray
(d) when one has not prayed every day

2. Finally finding a place to rest, how does the butterfly demonstrate what the soul can now do?
(a) finally stop flitting around
(b) finally locating a place of beauty
(c) finally experiencing life giving nectar
(d) finally experiencing forgetfulness of self

3. Why does Teresa stress that the most important thing is to bind one's will to the will of God instead of seeking some particular blessing?
(a) to get God to do her own will
(b) to establish the intimacy she describes and to maintain it
(c) to become superior to those in the lower dwellings
(d) to learn how to manipulate the Fifth Dwelling

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

5. In the early chambers of the Fifth Dwelling, what must the supplicant do?
(a) prepare to believe everything experienced
(b) look around to remember where one is
(c) test the spirits to see if the experience is good and godly
(d) keep both feet on the floor

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Beloved doing as she enters the Seventh Dwelling?

2. How does Teresa describe the bride of the Lord?

3. About what does Teresa suggest getting advice if one is commanded to do something during the Sixth Dwelling experience?

4. What is there no relief from while the soul is experiencing this pain on earth?

5. What does a vision coming from God do for the soul?

(see the answer key)

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