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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is grief of putting to death the silkworm worth forging through?
(a) it is a prerequisite of obedience
(b) it is a necessary and beautiful death
(c) it is a new kind of experience
(d) it is a trial by fire

3. What does Teresa say about good deeds that only glorify the person who does them?
(a) They help the person find humility.
(b) They are the only way to do good.
(c) They bring recognition from God.
(d) They yield no lasting good.

4. What is the hope of the soul in the Third Dwelling?
(a) less trouble in the earthly life
(b) a greater responsibility to please God
(c) a life of serving God, or wishing to be taken to Him
(d) more space to be comfortable in

5. As intimacy grows deeper, how are experiences of God measured?
(a) as trials that are overcome
(b) as mile markers on the way to heaven
(c) as sudden insights through study
(d) as less quantifiable and much more other-worldly

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Teresa say the mind will do if it is allowed to wander during prayer?

2. In the early chambers of the Fifth Dwelling, what must the supplicant do?

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

4. What do many people do to prevent them from moving into the Fifth Dwelling?

5. What does she say is not prayer at all?

(see the answer key)

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