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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the condition of the soul at this point?
(a) cleanly stripped of her worldly attachments
(b) able to defeat the evil spirits
(c) totally dependent on her faith
(d) devoid of free will

4. How do imaginative visions embed themselves into the soul?
(a) more as impressions than crisp memories
(b) as metaphors of all that the visions reveal
(c) as clear images that cannot be forgotten
(d) as fleeting images that return from time to time

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

6. For whom does she remember to pray as she approaches her Beloved?
(a) for the sisters in the convent
(b) for the Mother Church
(c) those who are still shackled, blind, deaf and living in darkness
(d) for her confessor and adviser

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

8. What is Teresa's analogy regarding the Seventh Dwelling?
(a) the soul and her Lord are now wed
(b) the wedding feast is being prepared
(c) meditation is in the form of butterflies
(d) there is a union of all the saints

9. How does Teresa say she is affected by her trials?
(a) She is discouraged.
(b) She is uplifted.
(c) She has to start all over.
(d) Her faith waivers.

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

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

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

13. What does she come to know by sight that the Church only knows by faith?
(a) the three distinct Persons of the Trinity and their perfect unity
(b) the awesomness of the angels
(c) the beauty of heaven
(d) the kid of food they eat in heaven

14. On what does Teresa suggest one meditates when in the state of sorrow for their past transgressions?
(a) the saints who have walked this path before them
(b) the peace that comes with dying
(c) the light they have seen in Dwelling Six
(d) the good things they have done in the past

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does she say the vile creatures of temptation may return?

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

3. Ending the Chapter on the Sixth Dwelling, what is Teresa's emphasis on?

4. What can the mind not comprehend after the communal experience with God?

5. How does Teresa qualify the marriage?

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