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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a vision coming from God do for the soul?
(a) inspires her to get lost in loving God
(b) makes her equal to God Himself
(c) makes her aware of His anger and wrath
(d) makes her recount all her shortcomings

2. Does Teresa say that hearing voices is always a negative sign?
(a) No, at times they are used by God.
(b) Yes, people who hear them are unbalanced.
(c) No, they may just be memories.
(d) Yes, they mean one is not in the Sixth Dwelling.

3. What does Teresa say the spirit of evil does?
(a) calms the anxieties
(b) instills unrest and disquiet
(c) makes one ecstatic
(d) provides a false serenity

4. Even at this point, what is Teresa's warning to her sisters?
(a) to remember to tell everyone about their experience
(b) to be cautious about offending God
(c) to keep the betrothal a secret
(d) to be sure to remain in the bridal chamber

5. Why does Teresa return to the analogy of the butterfly as she discusses the effects of her marriage?
(a) to explain how she got there
(b) to explain she has now died of happiness
(c) to explain how she is dressed
(d) to explain how she comes to rest

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

7. How does Teresa describe the feeling of unrest in the soul?
(a) hunger like after a forty day fast
(b) confusion like being lost in the woods
(c) pain like a flaming arrow piercing the body
(d) emptiness like a spilled glass

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

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

10. Finally finding a place to rest, how does the butterfly demonstrate what the soul can now do?
(a) finally stop flitting around
(b) finally experiencing life giving nectar
(c) finally experiencing forgetfulness of self
(d) finally locating a place of beauty

11. What does Teresa say are continuously going on in the chamber of the soul?
(a) celebrations
(b) wars
(c) dancing
(d) feasts

12. What is the condition of her soul that gives her confidence to enter the bridal chamber?
(a) in total annihilation
(b) in the state of grace
(c) completely transparent
(d) in spiritual perfection

13. What sets intellectual visions apart from all others?
(a) knowledge of the service required of one
(b) knowledge of good and evil
(c) knowledge of the constant companionship of God
(d) knowledge of the Scriptures

14. Even though the change it works in her is permanent, how does Teresa say she can describe the contact with the Beloved?
(a) able to tell others who have just entered the Sixth Dwelling
(b) totally the vision of her death and resurrection
(c) able to prophecy the future of the world based on the experience
(d) only partly able to describe the experience once it has ended

15. What knowledge gives Teresa comfort?
(a) she cannot be prosecuted by the Inquisition
(b) she is now free to do as she pleases
(c) the days on earth will soon come to an end
(d) the passions can be quieted

Short Answer Questions

1. What examples does Teresa give of others who were once thought mad because of their intense relationship with God?

2. What is the source of the pain Teresa describes?

3. In that rapture, what does Teresa say she is allowed to do?

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

5. What teaches the soul by quick impression a thousand different things equally hard to explain, according to Teresa?

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