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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do souls rightly handling spiritual trials do?
(a) adjust their perspective
(b) let them go
(c) work them out for themselves
(d) sweep them under the carpet

2. What, according to Teresa, is the value of continuously reflecting on one's own character?
(a) being able to live among the worldly
(b) always knowing the right thing to say
(c) having answers to all of life's questions
(d) being ready for trials before they come

3. How does Teresa say the confirmation of the Prayer of Union is not determined?
(a) not the confirmation of witnesses
(b) not the ability to recall past misdeeds
(c) not the empty feeling when one leaves
(d) not the confirmation of what she calls half-learned men

4. Why does Teresa stress that the most important thing is to bind one's will to the will of God instead of seeking some particular blessing?
(a) to learn how to manipulate the Fifth Dwelling
(b) to establish the intimacy she describes and to maintain it
(c) to become superior to those in the lower dwellings
(d) to get God to do her own will

5. What does a sister do when entering into the Fifth Dwelling?
(a) changes her clothes
(b) bows low and says the Our Father
(c) dies to her own desires
(d) opens her mind to spiritual infinity

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the book written?

2. Where is the Carmelite Convent of St. Joseph's

3. How does Teresa advise her sisters they can stay humble?

4. In this Fifth Dwelling state, what does the supplicant now desire?

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

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