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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. With whom does Teresa suggest the sisters share such intense relationships with God?
(a) anyone who asks
(b) people who will keep them secret
(c) the whole world
(d) their confessors

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

3. What is the metaphor Teresa returns to in order to explain the feeling in the soul of ever-increasing anguish and unrest?
(a) the butterfly trying to emerge from the cacoon
(b) the silkworm trying to spin its cacoon
(c) the elephant looking for a place to sleep
(d) the butterfly looking for a place to land

4. What does Teresa recognize when she experiences a soul-filling fragrance?
(a) She knows she must wait longer.
(b) She knows that she is having a death experience.
(c) She knows that she is still alive.
(d) She knows that He is calling her.

5. Ending the Chapter on the Sixth Dwelling, what is Teresa's emphasis on?
(a) distinguishing a real vision from a false one
(b) the formulas for improving meditation
(c) learning techniques for getting to the Sixth Dwelling quickly
(d) making the Sixth Dwelling appealing to all

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Teresa say the lack of humility will cause someone to do?

4. What does Teresa say intensifies the pain?

5. How do imaginative visions embed themselves into the soul?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the six reasons not to ask for a gift that another person has been given.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Teresa describe intellectual visions?

10. What is the comfort at the Sixth Dwelling level of intimacy with God?

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