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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What worries Teresa about being able to quote other writers?
(a) her accidentally stealing their words
(b) her failing memory
(c) her need to appear scholarly
(d) her lack of a reference library

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

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

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

5. What troubles Teresa as she is about to start writing?
(a) problems relating to the other sisters
(b) serious health problems
(c) visions of her death
(d) lack of ideas about where to start

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is THE INNER CASTLE addressed?

2. Why is Teresa the one ordered to write the book on prayer for women?

3. How does Teresa say a soul with excessive humility can see itself?

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

5. What does Teresa classify as a sign of the intention to draw ever closer to God?

(see the answer key)

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