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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the soul once it moves into the Second Dwelling?
(a) experimenting with temptations
(b) more aware of the temptations
(c) free of temptations
(d) unaware of temptations

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

3. What does she think about what she has to say in this book?
(a) that she has already said everything in other books
(b) that no one will understand what she says
(c) that there is too much information for only one book
(d) that she cannot write what she does not know

4. What is Teresa's metaphor of the tree transplanted into a smelly bog?
(a) a soul seeking to give life to the world
(b) a soul able to clean up the smelly bog
(c) a soul purposefully removed from the grace of God
(d) a soul in need of others to join in changing the world

5. How does she refer to God?
(a) as The Inquisitor
(b) as The Suffering Savior
(c) as the Beloved
(d) as the Task Master

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Teresa undertaking the writing of this book?

2. What is the composition of the castle?

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

4. What does Teresa say the condition of the soul is in the First Dwelling?

5. What does Teresa say a person who prays must do?

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