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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before beginning the writing, to what does she compare herself?
(a) a cat that sleeps all the time
(b) a bird that has been taught to speak
(c) a rabbit that fears preditors
(d) a fish that is left out of water

2. What does Teresa say is important in the early stages of being a butterfly in the Fifth Dwelling?
(a) learning self-motivation and authority
(b) keeping the experience always in mind
(c) testing one's spiritual wings
(d) continuing in obedience and devotion

3. What does Teresa say makes the Prayer of Recollection necessary?
(a) when one begins to forget how to pray
(b) when one has not prayed every day
(c) when one has left the convent
(d) when one has picked up bad habits

4. As intimacy grows deeper, how are experiences of God measured?
(a) as sudden insights through study
(b) as mile markers on the way to heaven
(c) as trials that are overcome
(d) as less quantifiable and much more other-worldly

5. How does Teresa say most people make decisions and judgments?
(a) urgently and fearlessly
(b) slowly and with reason
(c) quickly and groundlessly
(d) carefully and truthfully

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the simile of the soul's remaining willing and receptive so that God will shape her into a selfless lover?

2. What do many people do to prevent them from moving into the Fifth Dwelling?

3. What does she say is not prayer at all?

4. What is the condition Teresa describes in the Fifth Dwelling?

5. What does Teresa stress at the beginning of her treatise?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Teresa have to say about expectations and rewards for service to God?

2. How does Teresa introduce her analogy of the silkworm?

3. In what way does Teresa explain the Prayer of Recollection?

4. What reservation does Teresa have about writing on the subject of prayer?

5. What indicates Teresa's Christian mysticism as she begins her book?

6. Describe briefly the trial that accompanies arrival in the Sixth Dwelling.

7. Briefly summarize the pain of the Fifth Dwelling.

8. What does Teresa have to say about inept spiritual advisers?

9. What type of prayer does Teresa disdain?

10. How does Teresa evaluate those who serve but do not work at elevating their understanding of God?

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