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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 is the Beloved doing as she enters the Seventh Dwelling?
(a) He is organizing a feast of the saints.
(b) He is dressing for the occasion.
(c) He is preparing for her physical death.
(d) He is preparing to take her into His chamber to consummate their love.

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

3. In her brief moments of encounter with God, what emotion results afterward?
(a) a serious confusion of purpose
(b) great doubt that anyone will believe her
(c) fear that they might never happen again
(d) an ever deepening longing for God

4. What becomes Teresa's fondest desire to do?
(a) start a hospital for the poor
(b) weed out the unbelieving sisters in the convent
(c) to go deep into the world and inspire other souls to praise Him
(d) write many more books

5. At this level, what is engaged that takes the soul directly to the Beloved?
(a) the fear
(b) the habit
(c) the intellect
(d) the will

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the difference in the reminders she gets now when her spirit flags and the times she first encountered the pain of awareness?

2. What does Teresa suggest looking for in a spiritual adviser?

3. Having attained the Seventh Dwelling, what does a person now have?

4. To what does Teresa compare one's faith?

5. What does Teresa recognize is the only thing that can pull her from her God?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What communion does Teresa say trials at this level bring about?

3. How does Teresa describe intellectual visions?

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

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

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

7. How does Teresa explain the anguish and unrest of the soul in the Sixth Dwelling?

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

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

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

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