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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 God will do for those who face the possibility of losing their reputations?
(a) make them examples to other people
(b) equip them to handle the circumstance with dignity
(c) hide them from public view
(d) cast them away from His care

2. What is Teresa's metaphor of the tree transplanted into a smelly bog?
(a) a soul seeking to give life to the world
(b) a soul in need of others to join in changing the world
(c) a soul purposefully removed from the grace of God
(d) a soul able to clean up the smelly bog

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

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

5. What becomes Teresa's fondest desire to do?
(a) weed out the unbelieving sisters in the convent
(b) start a hospital for the poor
(c) write many more books
(d) to go deep into the world and inspire other souls to praise Him

Short Answer Questions

1. What simile does Teresa use to describe turning away from a life of prayer?

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

3. What, according to Teresa, motivated Jesus to raise Lazarus from the dead?

4. From where does Teresa say consolations come?

5. Why does Teresa say the experiences of such close communion with God cannot be fully explained?

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