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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What metaphor does Teresa introduce about the Fifth Dwelling?
(a) the way an ant collects food for the winter
(b) the way a bee works tirelessly for the queen
(c) the way a silk worm tirelessly works for the benefit of people
(d) the way a herd of elephants stay together

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

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

4. What teaches the soul by quick impression a thousand different things equally hard to explain, according to Teresa?
(a) the speed of light
(b) the rush of adrelalin
(c) the Mind of God
(d) the whisking away

5. What do many people do to prevent them from moving into the Fifth Dwelling?
(a) think they have already arrived
(b) get tired and give up
(c) listen to the skeptics
(d) allow themselves to become self-satisfied and judgmental

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Teresa say some souls react when God tests their strength and dependence on Him?

2. What does Teresa classify as intellectual visions?

3. According to Teresa, what is the condition when voices are heard?

4. What does she come to know by sight that the Church only knows by faith?

5. During what time does the soul recognize its capacity for receiving sweetness, or water from the spring?

(see the answer key)

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