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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What if someone makes elaborate sacrifice and asks special gifts from God?
(a) God will give all.
(b) God will give more.
(c) God is obligated to give in like kind.
(d) God is under no obligation to give.

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

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

4. What does she say is inside the castle?
(a) dwellings in every direction
(b) rooms filled with busy people
(c) diamonds and jewels
(d) green fields and flowers

5. What, according to Teresa, motivated Jesus to raise Lazarus from the dead?
(a) self-esteem
(b) joy
(c) favoritism
(d) grief

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Teresa's metaphor of the tree transplanted into a smelly bog?

2. What is her fear of not being in alignment with the Mother Church?

3. What does Teresa say about the servants of an earthly King?

4. What is the Prayer of Recollection all about?

5. What metaphor does Teresa use to discuss spiritual consolations?

(see the answer key)

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