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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Teresa say the encounters with God feel like?
(a) exquisite and delightful pain
(b) ease and comfort
(c) falling through space
(d) fear and trembling

2. What do many people do to prevent them from moving into the Fifth Dwelling?
(a) listen to the skeptics
(b) get tired and give up
(c) think they have already arrived
(d) allow themselves to become self-satisfied and judgmental

3. What is it when the soul retreats from the senses and begins to rebuild the temple where it can go to worship?
(a) the Prayer of Recollection
(b) the Lord's Prayer
(c) the Prayer of the Faithful
(d) the Prayer of Contrition

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

5. What does Teresa say is important at the Fourth Dwelling intimacy with God?
(a) not to think much but to love much
(b) not to give meaning to feelings
(c) not to continue looking inward
(d) not to speak much but to listen more

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What vision does Teresa have that gives her the idea of how to proceed with the book?

4. What is the final activity in the Sixth Dwelling, according to Teresa?

5. What is the composition of the castle?

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