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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 about God allowing evil spirits to tempt one at the Sixth Dwelling?
(a) He will not allow them into that area of the castle.
(b) God would never allow that.
(c) He will send his angels to help fight the temptation.
(d) He will be sure they are defeated.

2. Where might the voices heard during meditation come from according to Teresa?
(a) souls in Purgatory
(b) heavenly choirs
(c) a source that is less than divine
(d) external sounds in the background

3. How does Teresa explain the passage through the dwellings that happen for others?
(a) exactly like they happened to her
(b) as totally different from her experience
(c) not exactly as she describes them for everyone
(d) the same as her experience but with different metaphors

4. After doing something wrong, what amazes Teresa?
(a) She can get back into the castle.
(b) She still has the keys to the castle.
(c) She is not thrown out of the castle.
(d) God does not leave the castle.

5. What does Teresa say the lack of humility will cause someone to do?
(a) to ask for what she has not earned
(b) to keep her knowledge to herself
(c) to forget to rely on prayer
(d) to beg for better understanding

6. In her brief moments of encounter with God, what emotion results afterward?
(a) fear that they might never happen again
(b) great doubt that anyone will believe her
(c) an ever deepening longing for God
(d) a serious confusion of purpose

7. How does Teresa qualify the marriage?
(a) as something that does not really happen
(b) as something that cannot be fully realized in this life
(c) as something that repeats itself three times to be real
(d) as something that happens often

8. What is there no relief from while the soul is experiencing this pain on earth?
(a) losing it or finding it
(b) avoiding it or concealing it
(c) the time it takes or the way it grows
(d) enjoying it or escaping it

9. What is the source of the pain Teresa describes?
(a) recognizing her own shortcomings
(b) estrangement from God
(c) unworthiness of His love
(d) looking on the face of God

10. What, according to Teresa, is the prerequisite for entering briefly into the Sixth Dwelling?
(a) suffering
(b) obedience
(c) defiance
(d) bravery

11. About what does Teresa suggest getting advice if one is commanded to do something during the Sixth Dwelling experience?
(a) some action never heard of before
(b) some action that will affect another person
(c) some action that may be dangerous
(d) some action that seems against the Mother Church

12. What does Teresa say intensifies the pain?
(a) pride
(b) self knowledge
(c) God's condemnation
(d) doubt

13. What does Teresa say may happen to someone in the sixth Dwelling?
(a) hearing voices
(b) seeing darkness
(c) fainting spells
(d) feeling cold

14. What teaches the soul by quick impression a thousand different things equally hard to explain, according to Teresa?
(a) the whisking away
(b) the rush of adrelalin
(c) the speed of light
(d) the Mind of God

15. What serves to intensify the scrutiny with which she views herself and considers her own shortcomings?
(a) her need to feel forgiveness
(b) her increased knowledge of God
(c) her swift transitions
(d) her fear of overlooking some transgression

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Teresa say God gives her to remember this visit?

2. What does Teresa say a good adviser will know?

3. What is the condition of her soul that gives her confidence to enter the bridal chamber?

4. What is Teresa's analogy regarding the Seventh Dwelling?

5. If a voice she hears causes her to linger in worship and increases her devotion, what conclusion does Teresa draw?

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