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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 say about good deeds that only glorify the person who does them?
(a) They help the person find humility.
(b) They yield no lasting good.
(c) They are the only way to do good.
(d) They bring recognition from God.

2. Why is Teresa the one ordered to write the book on prayer for women?
(a) because it will keep her out of trouble
(b) because women communicate better with women
(c) because the men are busy writing other books
(d) because she has experience writing books

3. What does Teresa say happens to those who dwell outside the castle?
(a) They have to fight for their lives.
(b) They are eaten by the dragons.
(c) They become blind in the drakness.
(d) They become like the creatures out there.

4. When does Teresa say she is able to see clearly the ways she has strayed from Him while she has dwelled with Him?
(a) the moment she opens her eyes the next morning
(b) the moment in which God instills deep secrets in her soul
(c) the moment she wakes from her vision
(d) the moment she feels the warmth of His presence

5. What is her analogy of a person who does not pray?
(a) a double amputee
(b) a blind person
(c) a deaf person
(d) a quadraplegic

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Teresa say about the servants of an earthly King?

2. What is the simile of the soul's remaining willing and receptive so that God will shape her into a selfless lover?

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

4. To what does Teresa compare one's faith?

5. What if someone makes elaborate sacrifice and asks special gifts from God?

(see the answer key)

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