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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Teresa say is important in the early stages of being a butterfly in the Fifth Dwelling?
(a) learning self-motivation and authority
(b) continuing in obedience and devotion
(c) keeping the experience always in mind
(d) testing one's spiritual wings

2. How is the soul once it moves into the Second Dwelling?
(a) experimenting with temptations
(b) unaware of temptations
(c) more aware of the temptations
(d) free of temptations

3. Where does Teresa say her words come from?
(a) the Saints
(b) the visions she has
(c) the Beloved
(d) the Bible

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

5. 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

6. What must the formerly rich man do when he is reduced to poverty?
(a) take up a new religion
(b) curse God and die
(c) realize that he has sinned
(d) to maintain faith that God works wisely for his good

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

8. 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) perseverance
(d) indifference

9. How does Teresa describe the bride of the Lord?
(a) a soul who has no physical desires
(b) a soul who seeks protection
(c) a soul who has new whte raiment
(d) a soul who sees the worth of her Lord

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

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

12. Even at this stage, what does Teresa say God allows?
(a) the possibility of lingering in the world
(b) physical pain and suffering
(c) temptation to test the ones to whom He is about to reveal Himself
(d) visions to speed up the process of revealing Himslef

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the simile of the soul's remaining willing and receptive so that God will shape her into a selfless lover?

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

3. With whom does Teresa find comfort during this time?

4. What does Teresa say about good deeds that only glorify the person who does them?

5. Why is Teresa undertaking the writing of this book?

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