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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Teresa say most people make decisions and judgments?
(a) carefully and truthfully
(b) quickly and groundlessly
(c) slowly and with reason
(d) urgently and fearlessly

2. 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) curse God and die
(c) take up a new religion
(d) realize that he has sinned

3. From where does Teresa say consolations come?
(a) from spiritual superiors
(b) from purely human endeavors
(c) from publication of books
(d) from great sorrow

4. For what purpose does Teresa describe the crystal and the memory of the image of its beauty?
(a) to explain what she calls imaginative visions
(b) to explain comparative visions
(c) to explain elective visions
(d) to explain ordinary visions

5. What vision does Teresa have that gives her the idea of how to proceed with the book?
(a) a vision of a winding road
(b) a vision of St. Joseph
(c) a vision of a castle
(d) a vision of prayer

Short Answer Questions

1. In this Fifth Dwelling state, what does the supplicant now desire?

2. What is a second metaphor of spiritual consolation?

3. What can the mind not comprehend after the communal experience with God?

4. What does Teresa recognize is the only thing that can pull her from her God?

5. What is Teresa's spiritual marriage analogy?

(see the answer key)

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