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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the topic of the prologue?
(a) Other authors' works.
(b) A history of the Bible.
(c) The biography of the author.
(d) The purpose of the book.

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

3. Beside the feelings of poverty, what is necessary to completely purge the spirit?
(a) Revulsion.
(b) Elation.
(c) Unfaithfulness.
(d) Wretchedness.

4. In Book I, Chapter V, beginners fall victim to wrath when they lets the sins of other do what?
(a) Influence decisions.
(b) Continue.
(c) Irritate them.
(d) Enter their lives.

5. The example the author uses about purification illustrates an understanding of what concept?
(a) The strengthening of the soul by sin.
(b) The purging of the soul by divine love.
(c) The purging of the spirit by leaving behind sin.
(d) The strengthening of the spirit by God's wrath.

Short Answer Questions

1. What authors quote a state of pain so extreme for the soul it can find no comfort?

2. In Book I, Chapter VIII, what does the second night purify?

3. According to St. John, what does the spirit of those who enter the dark night feel?

4. On what does the author expound, in Book I, Chapter XI?

5. St. John says that almost all beginners will experience what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how the devil uses spiritual activity to place an impure thought in a believer's head, as described in Dark Night of the Soul.

2. In Book I, Chapter III, what are the symptoms of the sin of avarice?

3. How does a soul feel while experiencing the dark night and what happens during any period of rest in the dark night in Book II, Chapter VII?

4. In Book II, Chapter X, how does the divine fire of God teach about the state of souls in purgatory?

5. In Book II, Chapter V, what reasons are given for the dark night to be named "dark" and not "light"?

6. How does God determine how severe a person's trial will be through the dark night?

7. What are some of the benefits described in Book I, Chapter XIII of a soul that has been purified by the dark night?

8. How does the author compare the use of fire to the purification process a person experiences during the dark night?

9. In Book I, Chapter VI, why are new believers especially prone to the sin of gluttony?

10. How does the author compare divine light to sunlight?

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