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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sets intellectual visions apart from all others?
(a) knowledge of the service required of one
(b) knowledge of the Scriptures
(c) knowledge of the constant companionship of God
(d) knowledge of good and evil

2. How do imaginative visions embed themselves into the soul?
(a) as fleeting images that return from time to time
(b) more as impressions than crisp memories
(c) as metaphors of all that the visions reveal
(d) as clear images that cannot be forgotten

3. Why does Teresa say the experiences of such close communion with God cannot be fully explained?
(a) Telling them would destroy the bond with God.
(b) They are larger and stranger than anything explainable.
(c) They are secrets God does not allow to be revealed.
(d) They cannot be recalled clearly.

4. What must the formerly rich man do when he is reduced to poverty?
(a) to maintain faith that God works wisely for his good
(b) take up a new religion
(c) realize that he has sinned
(d) curse God and die

5. What does Teresa say makes the Prayer of Recollection necessary?
(a) when one has not prayed every day
(b) when one begins to forget how to pray
(c) when one has picked up bad habits
(d) when one has left the convent

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Teresa say is important at the Fourth Dwelling intimacy with God?

3. How does Teresa classify those who have reached the Third Dwelling?

4. How does Teresa describe the silk worm nature of the pending change in the supplicant?

5. Why are these Fourth Dwelling places deeper and more and more beautiful?

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