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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Teresa's spiritual marriage analogy?
(a) God as the groom and the worshipper as the bride
(b) God as the judge and the worshipper as the petitioner
(c) God as the host and the worshipper as the guest
(d) God as the pastor and the worshipper as the betrothed

2. 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

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

4. What does she think about what she has to say in this book?
(a) that she cannot write what she does not know
(b) that no one will understand what she says
(c) that she has already said everything in other books
(d) that there is too much information for only one book

5. After the Prayer of Union, where does the sister realize she was?
(a) among the saints
(b) floating in the cosmos
(c) in God and He was in her
(d) near death

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

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

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

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

10. 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.

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

12. What is the hope of the soul in the Third Dwelling?
(a) a life of serving God, or wishing to be taken to Him
(b) less trouble in the earthly life
(c) a greater responsibility to please God
(d) more space to be comfortable in

13. Who may, according to Teresa, cause doubt and turning away from her experience as soon as she is out of the throes of it?
(a) sisters who know more than she does
(b) the harsh realities of day to day living
(c) people who come with too many earthly problems
(d) inept and paranoid spiritual advisors

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What metaphor does Teresa introduce about the Fifth Dwelling?

2. Where does Teresa say her words come from?

3. When was the book written?

4. To whom is THE INNER CASTLE addressed?

5. What l transition does Teresa say should happen at Dwelling Three?

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