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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. In Book II, Chapter IX, what will a person become as he goes through a harder labor and more severe pain?
(a) More perfect.
(b) More sinful.
(c) Less perfect.
(d) More desirable by God.

2. In Book I, Chapter X, what can people become if they do not recognize they are going through the dark night?
(a) Depressed.
(b) More sinful.
(c) Angry.
(d) Discouraged.

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

4. What is disturbed by divine purgation, according to Book II, Chapter VIII?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Memory.
(c) The power of sin.
(d) The sleep cycle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to St. John, what happens when beginners try to build their own spirituality instead of waiting on God?

2. What is a type of pain felt during the dark night that is really not a problem, according to St. John?

3. 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?

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

5. What does the author describe as the reason for the underlying pain of the soul in preparation with a union with God?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Book II, Chapter VIII, why is the inability to pray or the feeling that prayers are not reaching God in the dark night not a problem?

3. What is the purpose of the Dark Night of the Soul as described in the prologue?

4. What does St. John say must change in a person in order for the divine and the human to exist within the same person?

5. 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.

6. What are the three types of pain that result from human and divine meeting in one, as discussed in Book II, Chapter VI?

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

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

9. Why does the author quote the sufferings of Job and Jeremias in Book II, Chapter VII?

10. How does the author describe the condition of beginners on their journey of faith?

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