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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Teresa's spiritual marriage analogy?
(a) God as the groom and the worshipper as the bride
(b) God as the pastor and the worshipper as the betrothed
(c) God as the judge and the worshipper as the petitioner
(d) God as the host and the worshipper as the guest

2. What does Teresa warn against regarding spiritual affectations?
(a) performing good deeds without love
(b) putting on a show of one's spirituality with esoteric jargon
(c) becoming smug in one's relationship to God
(d) putting on shows of miracle working

3. Why are these Fourth Dwelling places deeper and more and more beautiful?
(a) because they require more maintenance
(b) because they are not internal
(c) because they are nearer to the King
(d) because they are more expensive

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

5. After the Prayer of Union, where does the sister realize she was?
(a) in God and He was in her
(b) floating in the cosmos
(c) near death
(d) among the saints

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Teresa say about good deeds that only glorify the person who does them?

2. Does Teresa say that hearing voices is always a negative sign?

3. As intimacy grows deeper, how are experiences of God measured?

4. How does Teresa classify repeated prayers from memory?

5. How does she refer to God?

(see the answer key)

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