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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 does Teresa say may happen to someone in the sixth Dwelling?
(a) hearing voices
(b) fainting spells
(c) feeling cold
(d) seeing darkness

2. What examples does Teresa give of others who were once thought mad because of their intense relationship with God?
(a) Saint Joan and Saint Ignatious
(b) Saint Paul and Saint Rebecca
(c) Saint Anne and Saint Gregory
(d) Saint Francis and Peter of Alcantara

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

4. How does Teresa describe those brief encounters with God?
(a) lilting melodies of peace
(b) swoons of passion
(c) thunderbolts of unmistakable contact
(d) floating on calm waters

5. What does a vision coming from God do for the soul?
(a) inspires her to get lost in loving God
(b) makes her equal to God Himself
(c) makes her aware of His anger and wrath
(d) makes her recount all her shortcomings

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Teresa say she was doing that sometimes caused her to forget the simple guideline of getting to God?

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

3. What does Teresa say the spirit of evil does?

4. What does Teresa say God gives her to remember this visit?

5. What teaches the soul by quick impression a thousand different things equally hard to explain, according to Teresa?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What occasions the intensity of greater pain during this time of greater closeness to God?

4. At this Seventh Dwelling stage, how are Teresa's experiences with god different?

5. What tokens does Teresa say God gives to help recall the raptures?

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

7. What is the experience in the rapture that requires bravery?

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

9. What are the beneficial effects of spiritual pain on the earthly body?

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

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