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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Teresa say most people make decisions and judgments?
(a) carefully and truthfully
(b) slowly and with reason
(c) quickly and groundlessly
(d) urgently and fearlessly

2. What must be understood if the thoughts that serve as distractions are from a spirit of evil?
(a) they will dominate
(b) they will reverse the soul's progress
(c) they will pass
(d) they will increase

3. What does Teresa say about God allowing evil spirits to tempt one at the Sixth Dwelling?
(a) He will not allow them into that area of the castle.
(b) He will send his angels to help fight the temptation.
(c) God would never allow that.
(d) He will be sure they are defeated.

4. As intimacy grows deeper, how are experiences of God measured?
(a) as sudden insights through study
(b) as less quantifiable and much more other-worldly
(c) as mile markers on the way to heaven
(d) as trials that are overcome

5. What does Teresa say the nature of many people is?
(a) willingness to learn better things from example
(b) willingness to believe the negative things they hear
(c) willingness to overlook what they do not understand
(d) willingness to believe the good things they hear

Short Answer Questions

1. Who may, according to Teresa, cause doubt and turning away from her experience as soon as she is out of the throes of it?

2. What does Teresa say happens in the Fourth Dwelling?

3. What knowledge does Teresa say is the cause of intellectual visions?

4. What comes to her as she recognizes her ever increasing responsibility and passion to be of service to a God?

5. From where does Teresa say consolations come?

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