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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what strange source does Teresa find joy?
(a) being free from physical labor
(b) being persecuted for her King
(c) being cured of her physical ailments
(d) being fed by the Hand of God

2. What does Teresa say the spirit of evil does?
(a) makes one ecstatic
(b) calms the anxieties
(c) provides a false serenity
(d) instills unrest and disquiet

3. What does Teresa suggest looking for in a spiritual adviser?
(a) one who believes in miracles
(b) one who is both educated and discerning
(c) one who can keep a confidence
(d) one who has had similar experiences with prayer

4. What does she come to know by sight that the Church only knows by faith?
(a) the kid of food they eat in heaven
(b) the awesomness of the angels
(c) the three distinct Persons of the Trinity and their perfect unity
(d) the beauty of heaven

5. Why does Teresa say the experiences of such close communion with God cannot be fully explained?
(a) Telling them would destroy the bond with God.
(b) They are larger and stranger than anything explainable.
(c) They are secrets God does not allow to be revealed.
(d) They cannot be recalled clearly.

6. What does Teresa say about following one's lofty promises made to God in moments of worship?
(a) They are soon forgotten by God.
(b) They are no longer necessary.
(c) They require re-evaluation.
(d) They require action.

7. At this point, where does Teresa say she does any selfish thing?
(a) outside the castle
(b) in the dark
(c) inside that castle
(d) in a vision

8. What is Teresa's analogy regarding the Seventh Dwelling?
(a) there is a union of all the saints
(b) the wedding feast is being prepared
(c) meditation is in the form of butterflies
(d) the soul and her Lord are now wed

9. What can the mind not comprehend after the communal experience with God?
(a) anything that does not awaken the impulse to love
(b) what the meaning is of the experience
(c) how the soul can re-enter that communion
(d) where the body has been during the experience

10. For whom does she remember to pray as she approaches her Beloved?
(a) those who are still shackled, blind, deaf and living in darkness
(b) for the sisters in the convent
(c) for the Mother Church
(d) for her confessor and adviser

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

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

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

14. 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 ache to see the Beloved again and again
(c) the desire to do as much good as possible
(d) the feeling of taking arms to protect the Church

15. In that rapture, what does Teresa say she is allowed to do?
(a) feel a spiritual orgasm
(b) observe the final, most intimate dwelling for just a moment
(c) know what it feels like to die physically
(d) glimpse into the mind of the Beloved

Short Answer Questions

1. What becomes Teresa's fondest desire to do?

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

3. How does Teresa qualify the marriage?

4. Even at this point, what is Teresa's warning to her sisters?

5. What is the benefit of this marriage that is still not complete?

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