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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 yield no lasting good.
(b) They are the only way to do good.
(c) They bring recognition from God.
(d) They help the person find humility.

2. Why does Teresa stress that the most important thing is to bind one's will to the will of God instead of seeking some particular blessing?
(a) to become superior to those in the lower dwellings
(b) to establish the intimacy she describes and to maintain it
(c) to learn how to manipulate the Fifth Dwelling
(d) to get God to do her own will

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

4. Where might the voices heard during meditation come from according to Teresa?
(a) heavenly choirs
(b) a source that is less than divine
(c) external sounds in the background
(d) souls in Purgatory

5. How is the soul once it moves into the Second Dwelling?
(a) unaware of temptations
(b) experimenting with temptations
(c) more aware of the temptations
(d) free of temptations

Short Answer Questions

1. What becomes Teresa's fondest desire to do?

2. In her brief moments of encounter with God, what emotion results afterward?

3. What does Teresa say about God allowing evil spirits to tempt one at the Sixth Dwelling?

4. What happens when God presses the glowing ember into her soul?

5. What does Teresa say some observing her behavior may assume?

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