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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Teresa recognize when she experiences a soul-filling fragrance?
(a) She knows that she is having a death experience.
(b) She knows that she is still alive.
(c) She knows that He is calling her.
(d) She knows she must wait longer.

2. What does she say is inside the castle?
(a) dwellings in every direction
(b) rooms filled with busy people
(c) diamonds and jewels
(d) green fields and flowers

3. To what does Teresa invite the sister who would enter the Fifth Dwelling?
(a) certain herbs that enhance the experience
(b) communal prayer sessions to gain entrance
(c) lessons on finding the doorway
(d) deliberate meditation on the beauty of that life and sacrifice

4. What does Teresa say she was doing that sometimes caused her to forget the simple guideline of getting to God?
(a) meditating too long on the saints
(b) thinking too much about Christ
(c) working on her writing
(d) seeking the consolations of prayer

5. What does Teresa say the nature of many people is?
(a) willingness to learn better things from example
(b) willingness to believe the negative things they hear
(c) willingness to overlook what they do not understand
(d) willingness to believe the good things they hear

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What condition does Teresa suggest a soul is in when it turns away from a life of prayer?

3. When does Teresa say she is able to see clearly the ways she has strayed from Him while she has dwelled with Him?

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

5. What does Teresa suggest might be offered as a temptation in the second dwelling?

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