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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Teresa say the condition of the soul is in the First Dwelling?
(a) looking for the way back outside
(b) only just beginning to learn to pray
(c) confused by being in a strange place
(d) like that of a small child

2. What does Teresa say intensifies the pain?
(a) doubt
(b) self knowledge
(c) pride
(d) God's condemnation

3. What does Teresa say may happen to someone in the sixth Dwelling?
(a) feeling cold
(b) fainting spells
(c) hearing voices
(d) seeing darkness

4. What teaches the soul by quick impression a thousand different things equally hard to explain, according to Teresa?
(a) the Mind of God
(b) the rush of adrelalin
(c) the speed of light
(d) the whisking away

5. What, according to Teresa, is the prerequisite for entering briefly into the Sixth Dwelling?
(a) bravery
(b) obedience
(c) suffering
(d) defiance

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most important quality of someone wishing to move deeper?

2. What does Teresa say happens in the Fourth Dwelling?

3. What is a second metaphor of spiritual consolation?

4. What does Teresa say a good adviser will know?

5. To what does Teresa invite the sister who would enter the Fifth Dwelling?

(see the answer key)

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