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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Teresa describe the silk worm nature of the pending change in the supplicant?
(a) going through the pain of dying and resurrection
(b) spinning tightly into a silk cacoon
(c) facing the anxiety of the unknown
(d) moving into beauty and intimate service

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

4. In the Sixth Dwelling, what does Teresa describe pertaining to the bride?
(a) how eagerly she awaits her wedding day
(b) how she wonders what her wedding dress will be like
(c) how the time seems to take forever
(d) how the Groom will look in person

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

6. What is it when the soul retreats from the senses and begins to rebuild the temple where it can go to worship?
(a) the Prayer of the Faithful
(b) the Prayer of Contrition
(c) the Lord's Prayer
(d) the Prayer of Recollection

7. What does Teresa say God will do for those who face the possibility of losing their reputations?
(a) cast them away from His care
(b) make them examples to other people
(c) hide them from public view
(d) equip them to handle the circumstance with dignity

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

9. What does Teresa say the condition of the soul is in the First Dwelling?
(a) confused by being in a strange place
(b) like that of a small child
(c) only just beginning to learn to pray
(d) looking for the way back outside

10. What does Teresa warn against regarding spiritual affectations?
(a) putting on a show of one's spirituality with esoteric jargon
(b) putting on shows of miracle working
(c) becoming smug in one's relationship to God
(d) performing good deeds without love

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

12. What does Teresa stress at the beginning of her treatise?
(a) knowing oneself
(b) knowing the Beloved
(c) knowing the catechism
(d) knowing the Bible

13. Why is Teresa the one ordered to write the book on prayer for women?
(a) because she has experience writing books
(b) because the men are busy writing other books
(c) because it will keep her out of trouble
(d) because women communicate better with women

14. Where is the Carmelite Convent of St. Joseph's
(a) Barcelona, Spain
(b) Toledo, Spain
(c) Valencia, Spain
(d) Madrid, Spain

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Teresa suggest might be offered as a temptation in the second dwelling?

2. What does Teresa say the mind will do if it is allowed to wander during prayer?

3. What does Teresa say God is under no obligation to do"

4. What if someone makes elaborate sacrifice and asks special gifts from God?

5. After the Fifth Dwelling experience, what is the supplicant's new attitude?

(see the answer keys)

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