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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Teresa say some of her sisters do when they are engrossed in their own reaction to what is happening in their souls?
(a) focus on the reaction a little at a time
(b) focus on the reaction until it becomes cloudy
(c) focus on the reaction at the expense of their health
(d) focus on the reaction but not on the cause

3. 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

4. After the Fifth Dwelling experience, what is the supplicant's new attitude?
(a) dissatisfied with every earthly pleasure
(b) superior to all others
(c) ready to go out into the world again
(d) satisfied with herself and all she does

5. What does Teresa suggest might be offered as a temptation in the second dwelling?
(a) lasting peace if one does not progress beyond
(b) a feeling that one has arrived
(c) seemingly virtuous worldly alternatives
(d) the sense that the sould is right with God

6. What is the simile of the soul's remaining willing and receptive so that God will shape her into a selfless lover?
(a) blank pages
(b) warm sealing wax
(c) fresh baked bread
(d) boiling water

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

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

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

10. What worries Teresa about being able to quote other writers?
(a) her need to appear scholarly
(b) her accidentally stealing their words
(c) her lack of a reference library
(d) her failing memory

11. As intimacy grows deeper, how are experiences of God measured?
(a) as less quantifiable and much more other-worldly
(b) as trials that are overcome
(c) as sudden insights through study
(d) as mile markers on the way to heaven

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

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

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

15. What does she say is at the center of the castle?
(a) the answer to all prayers
(b) the heart of the penitent
(c) the dwelling place of God
(d) the soul of the believer

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Teresa say some souls react when God tests their strength and dependence on Him?

2. What does Teresa say some observing her behavior may assume?

3. What does Teresa warn against regarding spiritual affectations?

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

5. What does Teresa say the nature of many people is?

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