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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Prayer of Recollection all about?
(a) remembering the correct forms of prayer
(b) reciting all the prayers one has learned before
(c) memorizing an entire prayer book
(d) something that was lost and is being remembered

2. What does Teresa say some observing her behavior may assume?
(a) that she is putting on a show of her faith
(b) that she is about to die
(c) that she is trying to be a young woman
(d) that she has gone out of her mind

3. What does Teresa say she has never experienced?
(a) the physical effects of spiritual consolations
(b) the after effects of spiritual revelation
(c) the lasting effects of forgetting to pray
(d) the mental effects of spiritual visions

4. What if someone makes elaborate sacrifice and asks special gifts from God?
(a) God will give all.
(b) God is obligated to give in like kind.
(c) God is under no obligation to give.
(d) God will give more.

5. Why is Teresa the one ordered to write the book on prayer for women?
(a) because it will keep her out of trouble
(b) because women communicate better with women
(c) because the men are busy writing other books
(d) because she has experience writing books

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Teresa identify a period of spiritual aridity?

2. What must the formerly rich man do when he is reduced to poverty?

3. What is the simile of the soul's remaining willing and receptive so that God will shape her into a selfless lover?

4. What does Teresa say inhabits the outside of the castle?

5. How does Teresa say a soul with excessive humility can see itself?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has Teresa handled fear and weakness on her part in the past?

2. What reservation does Teresa have about writing on the subject of prayer?

3. In what way does Teresa say a sister can insure her devotion to God?

4. What indicates Teresa's Christian mysticism as she begins her book?

5. How does Teresa say a seeker will know if she is truly humble?

6. How does Teresa describe establishing and maintaining intimacy with God?

7. Describe what Teresa saw in her vision about how to write the book?

8. How does Teresa define spiritual consolations?

9. What does Teresa say about a nun who is entangled with the cares of the world?

10. What caution does Teresa offer about imagining one has gifts from God that have not actually been bestowed?

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