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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, is the distinction between this rapture and the last in Dwelling Five?
(a) this one makes living much more painful
(b) this one is faster
(c) this one is painful when it happens
(d) this one is harder to return from

2. What does Teresa classify as intellectual visions?
(a) memories of religious paintings
(b) visions not received by the senses
(c) images of the saints
(d) visions that come from reading the Bible

3. Why does Teresa say the experiences of such close communion with God cannot be fully explained?
(a) They are larger and stranger than anything explainable.
(b) They cannot be recalled clearly.
(c) Telling them would destroy the bond with God.
(d) They are secrets God does not allow to be revealed.

4. What happens when God presses the glowing ember into her soul?
(a) She feels pleasure instead of pain.
(b) It makes her glow fiery red.
(c) It does not catch fire.
(d) She falls like a heap of ashes.

5. What does Teresa say God gives her to remember this visit?
(a) a token of her visit
(b) an ability to dream the visit
(c) a thorn in the flesh
(d) a ring on her finger

6. If a voice she hears causes her to linger in worship and increases her devotion, what conclusion does Teresa draw?
(a) it is an echo of her thoughts
(b) it is a passed trial of distraction
(c) it it divine
(d) it was not something heard, after all

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

8. What does Teresa say the encounters with God feel like?
(a) exquisite and delightful pain
(b) fear and trembling
(c) ease and comfort
(d) falling through space

9. With whom does Teresa suggest the sisters share such intense relationships with God?
(a) the whole world
(b) anyone who asks
(c) people who will keep them secret
(d) their confessors

10. What does Teresa say about following one's lofty promises made to God in moments of worship?
(a) They require action.
(b) They are no longer necessary.
(c) They require re-evaluation.
(d) They are soon forgotten by God.

11. What is the benefit of this marriage that is still not complete?
(a) it keeps the bride from ever sinning again
(b) it predicts a quick physical death for the bride
(c) no separation is possible anymore
(d) it motivates to continue living righteously

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

13. What overwhelming emotion does Teresa go on to discuss in Dwelling Six?
(a) the immensity of a soul's desire to die and join her Beloved
(b) the feeling of taking arms to protect the Church
(c) the ache to see the Beloved again and again
(d) the desire to do as much good as possible

14. Why is Teresa limited in what she can do by way of teaching others what she knows?
(a) She has no teacher training.
(b) She is not a man.
(c) She has no material support.
(d) She is too mystical.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is her soul doing as she approaches the Beloved?

2. How does Teresa explain the passage through the dwellings that happen for others?

3. What sets intellectual visions apart from all others?

4. What does Teresa say may happen to someone in the sixth Dwelling?

5. To what does Teresa compare one's faith?

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