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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Teresa describe those brief encounters with God?
(a) swoons of passion
(b) lilting melodies of peace
(c) floating on calm waters
(d) thunderbolts of unmistakable contact

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

3. What can the mind not comprehend after the communal experience with God?
(a) anything that does not awaken the impulse to love
(b) what the meaning is of the experience
(c) how the soul can re-enter that communion
(d) where the body has been during the experience

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

5. What knowledge does Teresa say is the cause of intellectual visions?
(a) that God is always watching
(b) that she has been there before
(c) that God uses both mind and soul
(d) that she was taught these things

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. How does Teresa describe the ember in the soul--some thought that spreads its flame through the entire soul?
(a) a pain like dying
(b) moments of spiritual rapture
(c) a frightening experience that lasts only a moment
(d) moments of emptiness

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Teresa qualify the marriage?

2. On what does Teresa suggest one meditates when in the state of sorrow for their past transgressions?

3. Even though the change it works in her is permanent, how does Teresa say she can describe the contact with the Beloved?

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

5. What does Teresa say about following one's lofty promises made to God in moments of worship?

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