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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. How does Teresa describe the ember in the soul--some thought that spreads its flame through the entire soul?
(a) a pain like dying
(b) moments of spiritual rapture
(c) moments of emptiness
(d) a frightening experience that lasts only a moment

2. What question asked of the sons of Zebedee is Teresa finally able to answer?
(a) Are you able to drink from this chalice?
(b) Will you lay down your nets and follow me?
(c) Where were you when I was crucified?
(d) Why have you forsaken me?

3. What is the final activity in the Sixth Dwelling, according to Teresa?
(a) God performs a major test of faith.
(b) The soul leaves the body.
(c) The soul loses its identity.
(d) God consummates His engagement to His betrothed soul.

4. If a voice she hears causes her to linger in worship and increases her devotion, what conclusion does Teresa draw?
(a) it was not something heard, after all
(b) it it divine
(c) it is a passed trial of distraction
(d) it is an echo of her thoughts

5. What is there no relief from while the soul is experiencing this pain on earth?
(a) avoiding it or concealing it
(b) losing it or finding it
(c) the time it takes or the way it grows
(d) enjoying it or escaping it

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Teresa say the soul engages in after the espousal in Dwelling Six?

2. Even though the change it works in her is permanent, how does Teresa say she can describe the contact with the Beloved?

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

4. What knowledge gives Teresa comfort?

5. With whom does Teresa suggest the sisters share such intense relationships with God?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does Teresa describe intellectual visions?

8. Describe the esoteric talisman Teresa uses as an analogy to one's faith.

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

10. How does Teresa describe the soul as it comes into its most intimate contact with God?

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