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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the most important quality of someone wishing to move deeper?
(a) humility
(b) indoctrination
(c) moderation
(d) industry

2. What does Teresa suggest might be offered as a temptation in the second dwelling?
(a) the sense that the sould is right with God
(b) seemingly virtuous worldly alternatives
(c) a feeling that one has arrived
(d) lasting peace if one does not progress beyond

3. 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

4. What does Teresa say about the servants of an earthly King?
(a) They come and they go.
(b) Some of them are cast out.
(c) They all eat at his table.
(d) Not all of them are allowed into his private chamber.

5. What does Teresa say the condition of the soul is in the First Dwelling?
(a) looking for the way back outside
(b) confused by being in a strange place
(c) like that of a small child
(d) only just beginning to learn to pray

Short Answer Questions

1. What does she say is at the center of the castle?

2. What is her analogy of a person who does not pray?

3. What does Teresa say is important at the Fourth Dwelling intimacy with God?

4. As intimacy grows deeper, how are experiences of God measured?

5. What is the composition of the castle?

(see the answer key)

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