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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II, Chapter XV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. St. John says that in periods of affliction during the dark night, the soul may feel as if what will never go away?
(a) Pain.
(b) Anger.
(c) God.
(d) Sin.

2. What does the soul become enkindled with during the dark night, according to Book II, Chapter X?
(a) The love of God.
(b) Revulsion to faith.
(c) The weight of sin.
(d) Repentance of sin.

3. What is the reason for the disturbances within a man during the dark night, according to Book II, Chapter VIII?
(a) The payment for sins.
(b) Readiness for a union with God.
(c) Man's destiny to suffer.
(d) Readiness for a life sacrifice.

4. In Book I, Chapter XII, the soul develops a fear of what during the dark night?
(a) God's love.
(b) Other's love.
(c) Temptation.
(d) Backsliding.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many important points are made in Book II, Chapter X, about the purification process?

3. St. John writes that a person experiencing the dark night might feel as if who has abandoned him?

4. In Dark Night of the Soul, the power of hell would have no power over the soul if there were no what in the human soul?

5. What does St. John say affects Christians in a way that they are easily swayed by their senses and see imaginary visions?

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