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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Teresa identify a period of spiritual aridity?
(a) when the time for prayer feels like a drudgery
(b) when proceeding faithfully is more work than gratification
(c) when the words of prayer simply will not come
(d) when the supplicant forgets to drink water

2. Does Teresa say that hearing voices is always a negative sign?
(a) Yes, people who hear them are unbalanced.
(b) Yes, they mean one is not in the Sixth Dwelling.
(c) No, at times they are used by God.
(d) No, they may just be memories.

3. 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

4. What does a sister do when entering into the Fifth Dwelling?
(a) opens her mind to spiritual infinity
(b) bows low and says the Our Father
(c) changes her clothes
(d) dies to her own desires

5. What is the condition Teresa describes in the Fifth Dwelling?
(a) translocation
(b) physical elevation
(c) great longing
(d) removed from her senses and reason

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Teresa's spiritual marriage analogy?

2. What must be understood if the thoughts that serve as distractions are from a spirit of evil?

3. What does Teresa suggest might be offered as a temptation in the second dwelling?

4. What does Teresa say may happen to someone in the sixth Dwelling?

5. How does Teresa say God views the potential bride?

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