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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Teresa say is important in the early stages of being a butterfly in the Fifth Dwelling?
(a) continuing in obedience and devotion
(b) testing one's spiritual wings
(c) learning self-motivation and authority
(d) keeping the experience always in mind

2. What must be understood if the thoughts that serve as distractions are from a spirit of evil?
(a) they will pass
(b) they will dominate
(c) they will increase
(d) they will reverse the soul's progress

3. What do souls rightly handling spiritual trials do?
(a) work them out for themselves
(b) sweep them under the carpet
(c) let them go
(d) adjust their perspective

4. What does Teresa say about God allowing evil spirits to tempt one at the Sixth Dwelling?
(a) He will be sure they are defeated.
(b) He will send his angels to help fight the temptation.
(c) He will not allow them into that area of the castle.
(d) God would never allow that.

5. What does a sister do when entering into the Fifth Dwelling?
(a) opens her mind to spiritual infinity
(b) changes her clothes
(c) bows low and says the Our Father
(d) dies to her own desires

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is THE INNER CASTLE addressed?

2. What knowledge does Teresa say is the cause of intellectual visions?

3. Why is Teresa the one ordered to write the book on prayer for women?

4. What, according to Teresa, is the prerequisite for entering briefly into the Sixth Dwelling?

5. Why is grief of putting to death the silkworm worth forging through?

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