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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does she say is at the center of the castle?
(a) the heart of the penitent
(b) the dwelling place of God
(c) the answer to all prayers
(d) the soul of the believer

3. What does Teresa stress at the beginning of her treatise?
(a) knowing the Beloved
(b) knowing oneself
(c) knowing the Bible
(d) knowing the catechism

4. What is her analogy of a person who does not pray?
(a) a deaf person
(b) a double amputee
(c) a blind person
(d) a quadraplegic

5. What is it when the soul retreats from the senses and begins to rebuild the temple where it can go to worship?
(a) the Prayer of Contrition
(b) the Prayer of Recollection
(c) the Lord's Prayer
(d) the Prayer of the Faithful

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Teresa say some of her sisters do when they are engrossed in their own reaction to what is happening in their souls?

2. What vision does Teresa have that gives her the idea of how to proceed with the book?

3. What does Teresa say happens to those who dwell outside the castle?

4. What does Teresa say a person who prays must do?

5. In the early chambers of the Fifth Dwelling, what must the supplicant do?

(see the answer key)

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