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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What vision does Teresa have that gives her the idea of how to proceed with the book?
(a) a vision of St. Joseph
(b) a vision of a castle
(c) a vision of prayer
(d) a vision of a winding road

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

4. How does Teresa say God views the potential bride?
(a) how willingly and completely she is offering herself to Him
(b) how beautiful she is
(c) how sexually appealing she is
(d) how capable she is of bearing children

5. Why is Teresa undertaking the writing of this book?
(a) her obedience to her confessor
(b) her need to share her experience with the world
(c) her need to keep busy at her age
(d) her last chance to write a book

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Teresa insist she should not be pitied?

2. What does Teresa prescribe instead of memorized prayers?

3. Why is grief of putting to death the silkworm worth forging through?

4. What is the Prayer of Recollection all about?

5. How does Teresa classify repeated prayers from memory?

(see the answer key)

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