View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does she say is not prayer at all?
(a) rambling on about mundane matters
(b) praying while standing up
(c) praying to God as though He were a servant
(d) always asking God for favors

3. What do souls rightly handling spiritual trials do?
(a) work them out for themselves
(b) let them go
(c) adjust their perspective
(d) sweep them under the carpet

4. How does Teresa say the confirmation of the Prayer of Union is not determined?
(a) not the ability to recall past misdeeds
(b) not the empty feeling when one leaves
(c) not the confirmation of witnesses
(d) not the confirmation of what she calls half-learned men

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

6. Before beginning the writing, to what does she compare herself?
(a) a fish that is left out of water
(b) a rabbit that fears preditors
(c) a cat that sleeps all the time
(d) a bird that has been taught to speak

7. What does Teresa say the nature of many people is?
(a) willingness to learn better things from example
(b) willingness to believe the negative things they hear
(c) willingness to believe the good things they hear
(d) willingness to overlook what they do not understand

8. What, according to Teresa, motivated Jesus to raise Lazarus from the dead?
(a) grief
(b) joy
(c) self-esteem
(d) favoritism

9. 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) hide them from public view
(c) make them examples to other people
(d) equip them to handle the circumstance with dignity

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

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

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

13. With whom does Teresa find comfort during this time?
(a) sisters who are experiencing the Sixth Dwelling themselves
(b) her confessor who understands fully
(c) children who come for advice
(d) sisters who make allowances for her behavior

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Teresa say about good works done outside of communion with God ?

2. How does Teresa say a soul with excessive humility can see itself?

3. In the Sixth Dwelling, what does Teresa describe pertaining to the bride?

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

5. What remains in the mind about the reality and sacredness of such a foreign experience in the Fifth Dwelling?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 668 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample