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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What if someone makes elaborate sacrifice and asks special gifts from God?
(a) God is obligated to give in like kind.
(b) God will give all.
(c) God is under no obligation to give.
(d) God will give more.

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

3. What does Teresa say makes the Prayer of Recollection necessary?
(a) when one begins to forget how to pray
(b) when one has left the convent
(c) when one has not prayed every day
(d) when one has picked up bad habits

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

5. 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 Recollection
(b) the Prayer of the Faithful
(c) the Lord's Prayer
(d) the Prayer of Contrition

6. What remains in the mind about the reality and sacredness of such a foreign experience in the Fifth Dwelling?
(a) skepticism
(b) memory
(c) confusion
(d) the outter castle

7. In this Fifth Dwelling state, what does the supplicant now desire?
(a) to leave and never return
(b) to feed the poor
(c) to endure any trial for Him
(d) to return to her day to day activities

8. What is Teresa's metaphor of the tree transplanted into a smelly bog?
(a) a soul able to clean up the smelly bog
(b) a soul in need of others to join in changing the world
(c) a soul purposefully removed from the grace of God
(d) a soul seeking to give life to the world

9. How does she refer to God?
(a) as the Beloved
(b) as The Inquisitor
(c) as The Suffering Savior
(d) as the Task Master

10. What does Teresa classify as a sign of the intention to draw ever closer to God?
(a) heartborken sobs
(b) more study on prayer
(c) indifference
(d) perseverance

11. From where does Teresa say consolations come?
(a) from spiritual superiors
(b) from great sorrow
(c) from purely human endeavors
(d) from publication of books

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

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

14. What condition does Teresa suggest a soul is in when it turns away from a life of prayer?
(a) being free to examine itself
(b) in a state of grave error
(c) in a world of confusion
(d) being outside not able to find the door

15. What does Teresa suggest is the true test of the soul's capacity?
(a) a vessel running over with clear water
(b) knowing when God is speaking
(c) recognizing the sweetness, and in not turning away from it
(d) being still for long periods of time

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Teresa say God views the potential bride?

2. Where does Teresa say her words come from?

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?

4. What happens to good deeds when they are done in harmony with the love of Christ?

5. What does she say is at the center of the castle?

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