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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 becomes "soft."
(b) It becomes ready for heaven.
(c) It experiences a holy event.
(d) It "grows up."

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

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 new person.
(b) The likeness of God.
(c) A sinner.
(d) An innocent child.

4. 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) Less perfect.
(c) More sinful.
(d) More perfect.

5. St. John says that the dark night causes the soul to gain a healthy respect for what?
(a) Sin.
(b) God.
(c) Itself.
(d) Others.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two things cannot exist in the same person?

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

3. Beginners suffering from gluttony will find it hard to travel the "Road of" what, according to St. John?

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

5. According to the author, why must the soul forget all forms of natural love?

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