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

2. How does Teresa describe the feeling of unrest in the soul?
(a) pain like a flaming arrow piercing the body
(b) hunger like after a forty day fast
(c) confusion like being lost in the woods
(d) emptiness like a spilled glass

3. What is the condition of the soul at this point?
(a) totally dependent on her faith
(b) cleanly stripped of her worldly attachments
(c) devoid of free will
(d) able to defeat the evil spirits

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

5. About what does Teresa suggest getting advice if one is commanded to do something during the Sixth Dwelling experience?
(a) some action that may be dangerous
(b) some action that seems against the Mother Church
(c) some action never heard of before
(d) some action that will affect another person

Short Answer Questions

1. On what does Teresa suggest one meditates when in the state of sorrow for their past transgressions?

2. Why does Teresa return to the analogy of the butterfly as she discusses the effects of her marriage?

3. What overwhelming emotion does Teresa go on to discuss in Dwelling Six?

4. What is there no relief from while the soul is experiencing this pain on earth?

5. Why does Teresa insist she should not be pitied?

Short Essay Questions

1. What revelation comes to Teresa at the center of herself while in communion with God?

2. What admission does Teresa make regarding the hearing of voices?

3. What frustration comes to Teresa as she progresses in intimacy with God?

4. What limitation is on the marriage Teresa speaks of in the Seventh Dwelling?

5. What does Teresa say about remaining humble in light of the temporary nature of the world?

6. How does one recognize a vision not from God?

7. Even at this high state, what caution does Teresa offer?

8. How has joy given Teresa a kind of death?

9. How does Teresa describe the rapture of the Sixth Dwelling?

10. What communion does Teresa say trials at this level bring about?

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