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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Teresa undertaking the writing of this book?
(a) her need to share her experience with the world
(b) her last chance to write a book
(c) her obedience to her confessor
(d) her need to keep busy at her age

2. What does Teresa say the nature of many people is?
(a) willingness to believe the good things they hear
(b) willingness to learn better things from example
(c) willingness to believe the negative things they hear
(d) willingness to overlook what they do not understand

3. What simile does Teresa use to describe turning away from a life of prayer?
(a) like throwing a shroud over a brightly shining jewel
(b) like putting out all the candles in a dark house
(c) like putting mud in a cake
(d) like never washing out a drinking cup

4. What does she think about what she has to say in this book?
(a) that there is too much information for only one book
(b) that she cannot write what she does not know
(c) that no one will understand what she says
(d) that she has already said everything in other books

5. Why is grief of putting to death the silkworm worth forging through?
(a) it is a trial by fire
(b) it is a new kind of experience
(c) it is a necessary and beautiful death
(d) it is a prerequisite of obedience

6. What l transition does Teresa say should happen at Dwelling Three?
(a) from a life of service to one of total prayer
(b) from youth to old age
(c) from a life of learning to one of teaching
(d) from a devotional life to one of tangible service and sacrifice

7. How does Teresa advise her sisters they can stay humble?
(a) paying penance constantly
(b) going to confession daily
(c) working in the garden
(d) detaching oneself from results

8. What does Teresa say some observing her behavior may assume?
(a) that she is about to die
(b) that she is putting on a show of her faith
(c) that she has gone out of her mind
(d) that she is trying to be a young woman

9. What sign does the bride give that she is ready for union with God?
(a) She covers her head when she prays.
(b) She keeps her eyes lowered at all times.
(c) She removes herself from the possibility of error.
(d) She crawls on her hands and knees.

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

11. How does Teresa classify repeated prayers from memory?
(a) as mindless
(b) as time consuming
(c) as childish
(d) as fruitful

12. How does Teresa say some souls react when God tests their strength and dependence on Him?
(a) out of proportion to what is necessary to endure the trial
(b) defiantly toward all things spiritual
(c) doing nothing and hoping for the better
(d) slowly, delaying their progress

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

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

15. Who may, according to Teresa, cause doubt and turning away from her experience as soon as she is out of the throes of it?
(a) people who come with too many earthly problems
(b) the harsh realities of day to day living
(c) sisters who know more than she does
(d) inept and paranoid spiritual advisors

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Teresa say is important at the Fourth Dwelling intimacy with God?

2. In her metaphor, how does Teresa explain dying to one's personal desires?

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

4. What does Teresa classify as a sign of the intention to draw ever closer to God?

5. What is a second metaphor of spiritual consolation?

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