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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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

3. 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 get God to do her own will
(b) to become superior to those in the lower dwellings
(c) to establish the intimacy she describes and to maintain it
(d) to learn how to manipulate the Fifth Dwelling

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

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

6. What does Teresa say a person who prays must do?
(a) make confession before prayer
(b) turn attention away from earthly treasures
(c) lie prostrate on the ground
(d) light candles to help the prayer ascend

7. What is the composition of the castle?
(a) brick and mortor
(b) diamond or some clear crystal
(c) solid, carved stone
(d) cedars from Lebanon

8. What is the condition Teresa describes in the Fifth Dwelling?
(a) removed from her senses and reason
(b) great longing
(c) translocation
(d) physical elevation

9. How does Teresa classify those who have reached the Third Dwelling?
(a) exhausted from their journey
(b) unsure of where they are
(c) looking for a corner to rest in
(d) already on their way to security unless they turn away

10. Why are these Fourth Dwelling places deeper and more and more beautiful?
(a) because they are not internal
(b) because they are nearer to the King
(c) because they require more maintenance
(d) because they are more expensive

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

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

13. During what time does the soul recognize its capacity for receiving sweetness, or water from the spring?
(a) Evening Prayer
(b) Controlled Prayer
(c) Enlightened Prayer
(d) Quiet Prayer

14. What does Teresa say is important at the Fourth Dwelling intimacy with God?
(a) not to think much but to love much
(b) not to give meaning to feelings
(c) not to speak much but to listen more
(d) not to continue looking inward

15. When was the book written?
(a) 1776 A. D.
(b) 1577 A .D.
(c) 1665 A. D.
(d) 1493 A. D.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a sister do when entering into the Fifth Dwelling?

2. What does Teresa say makes the Prayer of Recollection necessary?

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

4. What is the most important quality of someone wishing to move deeper?

5. How does Teresa describe the bride of the Lord?

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