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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. How does the soul change during the dark night?
(a) It experiences a holy event.
(b) It "grows up."
(c) It becomes "soft."
(d) It becomes ready for heaven.

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

3. In Book II, Chapter IX, what will a person become as he goes through a harder labor and more severe pain?
(a) More desirable by God.
(b) More perfect.
(c) Less perfect.
(d) More sinful.

4. In Dark Night of the Soul, what does the soul wait for in the second night of darkness?
(a) God's forgiveness.
(b) God's instructions.
(c) The emergence of sin.
(d) Inner peace.

5. With what are the spirits in purgatory purged?
(a) Water.
(b) Sin.
(c) Real fire.
(d) God's love.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Dark Night of the Soul during the dark night, the soul learns that by itself it is what?

2. In Book II, Chapter XII, what does the spirit of wisdom and love also affects?

3. St. John writes that souls on earth are purged with the fire of what?

4. In Book II, Chapter XII, what--more than understanding--will be imparted to the soul because of the will of God?

5. What happens when the soul has a more complete purging, according to the author?

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