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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) memorizing an entire prayer book
(c) something that was lost and is being remembered
(d) reciting all the prayers one has learned before

2. What does Teresa say God is under no obligation to do"
(a) show miraculous signs to motivate people to believe
(b) command obedience apart from free will
(c) care whether anyone accesses the Fifth Dwelling or not
(d) bestow gifts to motivate believers to continue seeking Him

3. Even at this stage, what does Teresa say God allows?
(a) the possibility of lingering in the world
(b) temptation to test the ones to whom He is about to reveal Himself
(c) visions to speed up the process of revealing Himslef
(d) physical pain and suffering

4. How does Teresa say God views the potential bride?
(a) how beautiful she is
(b) how capable she is of bearing children
(c) how sexually appealing she is
(d) how willingly and completely she is offering herself to Him

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a sister do when entering into the Fifth Dwelling?

2. What does Teresa say is important in the early stages of being a butterfly in the Fifth Dwelling?

3. What does Teresa say is important at the Fourth Dwelling intimacy with God?

4. What happens to good deeds when they are done in harmony with the love of Christ?

5. What does Teresa say happens in the Fourth Dwelling?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Teresa introduce her analogy of the silkworm?

3. What is Teresa's conclusion on how she will proceed with the writing?

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

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

6. Describe briefly the trial that accompanies arrival in the Sixth Dwelling.

7. How does Teresa define spiritual consolations?

8. Explain how the seeker receives the spiritual sweetness.

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

10. What does Teresa have to say about mastering one's earthly appetites?

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