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

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

3. What does Teresa recognize is the only thing that can pull her from her God?
(a) Satan
(b) her spiritual advisers
(c) herself
(d) the Inquisition

4. For whom does she remember to pray as she approaches her Beloved?
(a) for her confessor and adviser
(b) those who are still shackled, blind, deaf and living in darkness
(c) for the Mother Church
(d) for the sisters in the convent

5. What do those closest to God experience?
(a) the greatest doubt
(b) freedom from temptation
(c) avoidance of all trials
(d) the most severe trials

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the metaphor Teresa returns to in order to explain the feeling in the soul of ever-increasing anguish and unrest?

2. What does she come to know by sight that the Church only knows by faith?

3. What does Teresa warn against about emotions from the Sixth Dwelling?

4. What is the benefit of this marriage that is still not complete?

5. When does Teresa say she is able to see clearly the ways she has strayed from Him while she has dwelled with Him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Teresa have to say about tears that spring form the raptures?

2. Describe the metaphor of the ember in preparing one for marriage to God.

3. What encouragement to her sisters does Teresa use to conclude her book?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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