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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. When does Teresa say she is able to see clearly the ways she has strayed from Him while she has dwelled with Him?
(a) the moment in which God instills deep secrets in her soul
(b) the moment she wakes from her vision
(c) the moment she feels the warmth of His presence
(d) the moment she opens her eyes the next morning

2. What serves to intensify the scrutiny with which she views herself and considers her own shortcomings?
(a) her fear of overlooking some transgression
(b) her need to feel forgiveness
(c) her increased knowledge of God
(d) her swift transitions

3. What is the source of the pain Teresa describes?
(a) recognizing her own shortcomings
(b) looking on the face of God
(c) estrangement from God
(d) unworthiness of His love

4. Where might the voices heard during meditation come from according to Teresa?
(a) external sounds in the background
(b) souls in Purgatory
(c) a source that is less than divine
(d) heavenly choirs

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Finally finding a place to rest, how does the butterfly demonstrate what the soul can now do?

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

3. What comes to her as she recognizes her ever increasing responsibility and passion to be of service to a God?

4. What is her soul doing as she approaches the Beloved?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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