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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 God will do for those who face the possibility of losing their reputations?
(a) cast them away from His care
(b) make them examples to other people
(c) hide them from public view
(d) equip them to handle the circumstance with dignity

2. What metaphor does Teresa use to discuss spiritual consolations?
(a) water
(b) air
(c) earth
(d) fire

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

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

5. What is the Prayer of Recollection all about?
(a) something that was lost and is being remembered
(b) memorizing an entire prayer book
(c) reciting all the prayers one has learned before
(d) remembering the correct forms of prayer

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What if someone makes elaborate sacrifice and asks special gifts from God?

3. What is it when the soul retreats from the senses and begins to rebuild the temple where it can go to worship?

4. Before beginning the writing, to what does she compare herself?

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

(see the answer key)

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