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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 good and evil
(b) knowledge of the service required of one
(c) knowledge of the constant companionship of God
(d) knowledge of the Scriptures

2. What does Teresa say inhabits the outside of the castle?
(a) lay people
(b) dragons and monsters
(c) the dead
(d) vile, poisonous creatures

3. 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

4. What, according to Teresa, is the value of continuously reflecting on one's own character?
(a) being able to live among the worldly
(b) always knowing the right thing to say
(c) having answers to all of life's questions
(d) being ready for trials before they come

5. What does Teresa say the condition of the soul is in the First Dwelling?
(a) like that of a small child
(b) looking for the way back outside
(c) confused by being in a strange place
(d) only just beginning to learn to pray

Short Answer Questions

1. After the Prayer of Union, where does the sister realize she was?

2. What does Teresa say the spirit of evil does?

3. Why is Teresa undertaking the writing of this book?

4. What does a sister do when entering into the Fifth Dwelling?

5. What does Teresa classify as a sign of the intention to draw ever closer to God?

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