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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Teresa say a person who prays must do?
(a) light candles to help the prayer ascend
(b) lie prostrate on the ground
(c) turn attention away from earthly treasures
(d) make confession before prayer

2. Before beginning the writing, to what does she compare herself?
(a) a rabbit that fears preditors
(b) a fish that is left out of water
(c) a bird that has been taught to speak
(d) a cat that sleeps all the time

3. During what time does the soul recognize its capacity for receiving sweetness, or water from the spring?
(a) Evening Prayer
(b) Enlightened Prayer
(c) Quiet Prayer
(d) Controlled Prayer

4. What does Teresa classify as a sign of the intention to draw ever closer to God?
(a) indifference
(b) heartborken sobs
(c) perseverance
(d) more study on prayer

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Teresa say she has never experienced?

3. What is the hope of the soul in the Third Dwelling?

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

5. How does Teresa classify those who have reached the Third Dwelling?

(see the answer key)

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