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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. What happens when the soul has a more complete purging, according to the author?
(a) The better of a chance to backslide.
(b) The closer to God a being will become.
(c) The more likely to sin.
(d) The better of a chance to enter heaven.

2. What does the spirit of a man search for in the darkness?
(a) Forgiveness.
(b) His soul.
(c) God.
(d) His soulmate.

3. The soul starts to develop a habit of what during the dark night, as stated in Book I, Chapter XIII?
(a) Peaceful sleep.
(b) Identifying sin.
(c) Remembrance of God.
(d) Strong temptation of sin.

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

5. What is the name of the sin that occurs when a beginner hears another being praised and wants the praise for himself?
(a) Spiritual luxury.
(b) Greed.
(c) Spiritual envy.
(d) Impure heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the soul find in the dark night that it must face, according to Book II, Chapter IX?

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

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

4. When the souls on earth are purged, with what do they become infused, according to Book II, Chapter XII?

5. In Dark Night of the Soul, with what do slothful Christians have trouble aligning themselves?

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