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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a type of pain felt during the dark night that is really not a problem, according to St. John?
(a) The need to sin.
(b) The inability to pray.
(c) The pain of guilt.
(d) The desire to reject God.

2. In Book II, Chapter I, what does the beginning Christian become after passing through the dark night?
(a) A priest.
(b) A proficient Christian.
(c) A baptized person.
(d) A sinless and perfect soul.

3. Who is the author of Dark Night of the Soul?
(a) St. Patrick.
(b) St. John.
(c) St. Ignatius.
(d) St. Michael.

4. St. John writes that because of the goodness of God's divine wisdom, the soul actually feels as if it is being what?
(a) Punished.
(b) Abolished.
(c) Strengthened.
(d) Immortalized.

5. What is another name for avarice?
(a) Greed.
(b) Laziness.
(c) Anger.
(d) Lust.

6. What do beginning Christians feel happens when they grow in faith and deal with suffering for God's sake, according to Book I, Chapter IX?
(a) They no longer believe in their faith.
(b) Their sins worsen.
(c) God suddenly abandons them.
(d) God draws closer to them.

7. The author states that impure thoughts from spiritual luxury are a result of the pleasure humans find in what?
(a) Earthly things.
(b) Spiritual things.
(c) Lust for others.
(d) Dance.

8. In Book II, Chapter IV, what is purged on the second night of darkness?
(a) All unclean thoughts.
(b) All mortal sins.
(c) Both parts of the soul together.
(d) Only the sensual part of the soul.

9. What is the title of the poem that is introduced in the prologue?
(a) "Song of Songs."
(b) "The Stanzas of the Soul."
(c) "Song of the Soul."
(d) "Mount Carmel."

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

11. What does God feed new beginners according to the author?
(a) Spiritual milk.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Bread.
(d) Water.

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

13. It is necessary for the spirit and the sensual portion of man to be separated in order for what to happen, according to Book II, Chapter III?
(a) An entrance into heaven.
(b) God's forgiveness.
(c) The second night of darkness.
(d) Baptism.

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

15. St. Johns states that believers react to God similarly to what?
(a) The sun and the moon.
(b) Changing wind.
(c) Animals.
(d) Children.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the sin that occurs when a beginner hears another being praised and wants the praise for himself?

3. What does the soul become enkindled with during the dark night, according to Book II, Chapter X?

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. St. John explains that beginners who have pride become impatient with whom?

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