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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Teresa say the mind will do if it is allowed to wander during prayer?
(a) recall all the things one needs to pray for
(b) inevitably hopelessly stimulate the imagination
(c) drift back towards God
(d) seek out the weaknesses in the soul

2. What vision does Teresa have that gives her the idea of how to proceed with the book?
(a) a vision of St. Joseph
(b) a vision of a castle
(c) a vision of prayer
(d) a vision of a winding road

3. What does Teresa say inhabits the outside of the castle?
(a) dragons and monsters
(b) the dead
(c) vile, poisonous creatures
(d) lay people

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

5. Why is Teresa the one ordered to write the book on prayer for women?
(a) because it will keep her out of trouble
(b) because the men are busy writing other books
(c) because she has experience writing books
(d) because women communicate better with women

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a sister do when entering into the Fifth Dwelling?

2. How does Teresa say the confirmation of the Prayer of Union is not determined?

3. What does Teresa say some of her sisters do when they are engrossed in their own reaction to what is happening in their souls?

4. What is the condition Teresa describes in the Fifth Dwelling?

5. What does Teresa say makes the Prayer of Recollection necessary?

(see the answer key)

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