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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom does Teresa find comfort during this time?
(a) her confessor who understands fully
(b) sisters who are experiencing the Sixth Dwelling themselves
(c) children who come for advice
(d) sisters who make allowances for her behavior

2. What if someone makes elaborate sacrifice and asks special gifts from God?
(a) God will give more.
(b) God is under no obligation to give.
(c) God is obligated to give in like kind.
(d) God will give all.

3. What overwhelming emotion does Teresa go on to discuss in Dwelling Six?
(a) the immensity of a soul's desire to die and join her Beloved
(b) the desire to do as much good as possible
(c) the feeling of taking arms to protect the Church
(d) the ache to see the Beloved again and again

4. What does Teresa say inhabits the outside of the castle?
(a) dragons and monsters
(b) the dead
(c) vile, poisonous creatures
(d) lay people

5. How does Teresa describe the silk worm nature of the pending change in the supplicant?
(a) going through the pain of dying and resurrection
(b) spinning tightly into a silk cacoon
(c) facing the anxiety of the unknown
(d) moving into beauty and intimate service

Short Answer Questions

1. What can the mind not comprehend after the communal experience with God?

2. What is the Prayer of Recollection all about?

3. What remains in the mind about the reality and sacredness of such a foreign experience in the Fifth Dwelling?

4. Where might the voices heard during meditation come from according to Teresa?

5. What does Teresa say the encounters with God feel like?

(see the answer key)

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