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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. What does Teresa say God gives her to remember this visit?
(a) a token of her visit
(b) an ability to dream the visit
(c) a thorn in the flesh
(d) a ring on her finger

3. Why does Teresa return to the analogy of the butterfly as she discusses the effects of her marriage?
(a) to explain she has now died of happiness
(b) to explain how she comes to rest
(c) to explain how she is dressed
(d) to explain how she got there

4. What is the condition of her soul that gives her confidence to enter the bridal chamber?
(a) in the state of grace
(b) in spiritual perfection
(c) completely transparent
(d) in total annihilation

5. What does Teresa warn against about emotions from the Sixth Dwelling?
(a) becoming adicted to the emotional high
(b) desiring the emotion over wanting to be obedient
(c) losing one's mind in the process
(d) falsely interpreting other intensity of emotion for this kind of longing

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

7. For what purpose does Teresa describe the crystal and the memory of the image of its beauty?
(a) to explain ordinary visions
(b) to explain what she calls imaginative visions
(c) to explain comparative visions
(d) to explain elective visions

8. What does Teresa say are continuously going on in the chamber of the soul?
(a) celebrations
(b) wars
(c) dancing
(d) feasts

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

10. What does Teresa say she was doing that sometimes caused her to forget the simple guideline of getting to God?
(a) seeking the consolations of prayer
(b) thinking too much about Christ
(c) working on her writing
(d) meditating too long on the saints

11. Where might the voices heard during meditation come from according to Teresa?
(a) heavenly choirs
(b) a source that is less than divine
(c) external sounds in the background
(d) souls in Purgatory

12. When does she say the vile creatures of temptation may return?
(a) even when she is very close to her God
(b) when she has nothing to do
(c) while she is writing
(d) in her dreams

13. At this level, what is engaged that takes the soul directly to the Beloved?
(a) the will
(b) the fear
(c) the habit
(d) the intellect

14. With whom does Teresa suggest the sisters share such intense relationships with God?
(a) the whole world
(b) people who will keep them secret
(c) their confessors
(d) anyone who asks

15. Even though the change it works in her is permanent, how does Teresa say she can describe the contact with the Beloved?
(a) only partly able to describe the experience once it has ended
(b) able to prophecy the future of the world based on the experience
(c) able to tell others who have just entered the Sixth Dwelling
(d) totally the vision of her death and resurrection

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Teresa say may happen to someone in the sixth Dwelling?

2. Finally finding a place to rest, how does the butterfly demonstrate what the soul can now do?

3. What is the Beloved doing as she enters the Seventh Dwelling?

4. In those moments of ecstasy, how is the soul whisked away by God?

5. What is Teresa's analogy regarding the Seventh Dwelling?

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