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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 she was doing that sometimes caused her to forget the simple guideline of getting to God?
(a) seeking the consolations of prayer
(b) thinking too much about Christ
(c) working on her writing
(d) meditating too long on the saints

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

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

4. What does Teresa recognize when she experiences a soul-filling fragrance?
(a) She knows that she is still alive.
(b) She knows that she is having a death experience.
(c) She knows she must wait longer.
(d) She knows that He is calling her.

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

6. What does Teresa say may happen to someone in the sixth Dwelling?
(a) fainting spells
(b) seeing darkness
(c) feeling cold
(d) hearing voices

7. What does Teresa say the lack of humility will cause someone to do?
(a) to ask for what she has not earned
(b) to keep her knowledge to herself
(c) to forget to rely on prayer
(d) to beg for better understanding

8. To what does Teresa compare one's faith?
(a) a sword to slay evil
(b) a ship afloat on the ocean
(c) a crystal containing healing powers
(d) a light at the end of a tunnel

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

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

11. Why does Teresa insist she should not be pitied?
(a) because pity should be given to the poor and outcasts
(b) because she has the infinity of the strength of God to buoy her
(c) because it would insult God
(d) because she knows God will find a way for her to teach others

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

13. What does Teresa warn against about emotions from the Sixth Dwelling?
(a) losing one's mind in the process
(b) becoming adicted to the emotional high
(c) falsely interpreting other intensity of emotion for this kind of longing
(d) desiring the emotion over wanting to be obedient

14. From what strange source does Teresa find joy?
(a) being fed by the Hand of God
(b) being persecuted for her King
(c) being free from physical labor
(d) being cured of her physical ailments

15. What do those closest to God experience?
(a) freedom from temptation
(b) the most severe trials
(c) avoidance of all trials
(d) the greatest doubt

Short Answer Questions

1. What does her focus on her inner temple now bring Teresa in the Seventh Dwelling?

2. How does Teresa say she is affected by her trials?

3. What happens when God presses the glowing ember into her soul?

4. What is the benefit of this marriage that is still not complete?

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

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