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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) able to prophecy the future of the world based on the experience
(d) only partly able to describe the experience once it has ended

2. What teaches the soul by quick impression a thousand different things equally hard to explain, according to Teresa?
(a) the rush of adrelalin
(b) the speed of light
(c) the Mind of God
(d) the whisking away

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

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

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

6. What is the final activity in the Sixth Dwelling, according to Teresa?
(a) God performs a major test of faith.
(b) God consummates His engagement to His betrothed soul.
(c) The soul leaves the body.
(d) The soul loses its identity.

7. What does Teresa suggest looking for in a spiritual adviser?
(a) one who has had similar experiences with prayer
(b) one who can keep a confidence
(c) one who is both educated and discerning
(d) one who believes in miracles

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

9. In those moments of ecstasy, how is the soul whisked away by God?
(a) in a flash of light
(b) with startling speed
(c) lifted by angels
(d) on a white horse

10. 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) easy experiences instead of the pain like before
(b) self-recognition of what she needs to do
(c) rapid flights back to the Seventh Dwelling
(d) sudden flashes of truth

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

12. At this point, where does Teresa say she does any selfish thing?
(a) in the dark
(b) in a vision
(c) outside the castle
(d) inside that castle

13. What does Teresa say the soul engages in after the espousal in Dwelling Six?
(a) painful lamenting
(b) over indulgence
(c) days of solitude
(d) radiant celebration

14. Even at this point, what is Teresa's warning to her sisters?
(a) to keep the betrothal a secret
(b) to be cautious about offending God
(c) to be sure to remain in the bridal chamber
(d) to remember to tell everyone about their experience

15. 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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Finally finding a place to rest, how does the butterfly demonstrate what the soul can now do?

3. For whom does she remember to pray as she approaches her Beloved?

4. What sets intellectual visions apart from all others?

5. What are the tokens of each visit to Dwelling Six?

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