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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 hope of the soul in the Third Dwelling?
(a) less trouble in the earthly life
(b) a life of serving God, or wishing to be taken to Him
(c) a greater responsibility to please God
(d) more space to be comfortable in

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

3. 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 she has experience writing books
(c) because women communicate better with women
(d) because the men are busy writing other books

4. Before beginning the writing, to what does she compare herself?
(a) a fish that is left out of water
(b) a rabbit that fears preditors
(c) a cat that sleeps all the time
(d) a bird that has been taught to speak

5. What l transition does Teresa say should happen at Dwelling Three?
(a) from a life of service to one of total prayer
(b) from a devotional life to one of tangible service and sacrifice
(c) from youth to old age
(d) from a life of learning to one of teaching

Short Answer Questions

1. What is her analogy of a person who does not pray?

2. What condition does Teresa suggest a soul is in when it turns away from a life of prayer?

3. What does Teresa say God is under no obligation to do"

4. Why does Teresa stress that the most important thing is to bind one's will to the will of God instead of seeking some particular blessing?

5. As intimacy grows deeper, how are experiences of God measured?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how the seeker receives the spiritual sweetness.

2. What explanation does Teresa give in her prologue?

3. What does Teresa prescribe as a means of passing any test of her faith and devotion?

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

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

6. In what way does Teresa explain the Prayer of Recollection?

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

8. Briefly summarize the pain of the Fifth Dwelling.

9. What is Teresa's feeling after leaving the Prayer of Union?

10. What does Teresa have to say about inept spiritual advisers?

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