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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where might the voices heard during meditation come from according to Teresa?
(a) a source that is less than divine
(b) souls in Purgatory
(c) heavenly choirs
(d) external sounds in the background

2. Why is Teresa limited in what she can do by way of teaching others what she knows?
(a) She has no teacher training.
(b) She has no material support.
(c) She is not a man.
(d) She is too mystical.

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

4. How does Teresa identify a period of spiritual aridity?
(a) when the supplicant forgets to drink water
(b) when the time for prayer feels like a drudgery
(c) when proceeding faithfully is more work than gratification
(d) when the words of prayer simply will not come

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What can the mind not comprehend after the communal experience with God?

2. What becomes Teresa's fondest desire to do?

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

4. How does Teresa say the confirmation of the Prayer of Union is not determined?

5. What does Teresa say the condition of the soul is in the First Dwelling?

(see the answer key)

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