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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Teresa identify a period of spiritual aridity?
(a) when the supplicant forgets to drink water
(b) when the words of prayer simply will not come
(c) when the time for prayer feels like a drudgery
(d) when proceeding faithfully is more work than gratification

2. According to Teresa, what is the condition when voices are heard?
(a) complete concentrations
(b) deepend ecstasy
(c) communication of the saints
(d) frequently signs of mental imbalance

3. What does Teresa say is important at the Fourth Dwelling intimacy with God?
(a) not to give meaning to feelings
(b) not to think much but to love much
(c) not to continue looking inward
(d) not to speak much but to listen more

4. As intimacy grows deeper, how are experiences of God measured?
(a) as sudden insights through study
(b) as less quantifiable and much more other-worldly
(c) as mile markers on the way to heaven
(d) as trials that are overcome

5. What remains in the mind about the reality and sacredness of such a foreign experience in the Fifth Dwelling?
(a) skepticism
(b) the outter castle
(c) memory
(d) confusion

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are these Fourth Dwelling places deeper and more and more beautiful?

2. What must be understood if the thoughts that serve as distractions are from a spirit of evil?

3. What does a sister do when entering into the Fifth Dwelling?

4. How does Teresa describe the silk worm nature of the pending change in the supplicant?

5. What does Teresa say the condition of the soul is in the First Dwelling?

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