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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is her soul doing as she approaches the Beloved?
(a) expanding through the universe
(b) getting progressively brighter
(c) shrinking away
(d) becoming more and more visible

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

3. 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 forgetfulness of self
(c) finally stop flitting around
(d) finally experiencing life giving nectar

4. Ending the Chapter on the Sixth Dwelling, what is Teresa's emphasis on?
(a) the formulas for improving meditation
(b) learning techniques for getting to the Sixth Dwelling quickly
(c) distinguishing a real vision from a false one
(d) making the Sixth Dwelling appealing to all

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

6. Above all, however, what does Teresa suggest is of paramount importance?
(a) that prayer be intellectual
(b) that the soul stays close to Christ
(c) that one does not rely on the saints
(d) that emotions do not come to rule the mind

7. What does Teresa recognize is the only thing that can pull her from her God?
(a) Satan
(b) her spiritual advisers
(c) the Inquisition
(d) herself

8. For what purpose does Teresa describe the crystal and the memory of the image of its beauty?
(a) to explain ordinary visions
(b) to explain elective visions
(c) to explain comparative visions
(d) to explain what she calls imaginative visions

9. What does Teresa tell her sisters will be their best way of teaching those who know them?
(a) the fire of their devotion
(b) the fact that they are nuns
(c) the loftiness of their titles
(d) the rhythm of their words

10. What question asked of the sons of Zebedee is Teresa finally able to answer?
(a) Where were you when I was crucified?
(b) Will you lay down your nets and follow me?
(c) Why have you forsaken me?
(d) Are you able to drink from this chalice?

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

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

13. What is the difference in the reminders she gets now when her spirit flags and the times she first encountered the pain of awareness?
(a) rapid flights back to the Seventh Dwelling
(b) sudden flashes of truth
(c) self-recognition of what she needs to do
(d) easy experiences instead of the pain like before

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Teresa say the soul engages in after the espousal in Dwelling Six?

2. In those moments of ecstasy, how is the soul whisked away by God?

3. What sets intellectual visions apart from all others?

4. What is the final activity in the Sixth Dwelling, according to Teresa?

5. What is the condition of the soul at this point?

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