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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. What does Teresa recognize is the only thing that can pull her from her God?
(a) her spiritual advisers
(b) Satan
(c) herself
(d) the Inquisition

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

3. Having attained the Seventh Dwelling, what does a person now have?
(a) a mighty and faithful Companion by her side
(b) infalability of spirit
(c) a shield against temptation
(d) a roadmap back to God

4. How do imaginative visions embed themselves into the soul?
(a) as clear images that cannot be forgotten
(b) more as impressions than crisp memories
(c) as metaphors of all that the visions reveal
(d) as fleeting images that return from time to time

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

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 teaches the soul by quick impression a thousand different things equally hard to explain, according to Teresa?

4. How does Teresa describe the ember in the soul--some thought that spreads its flame through the entire soul?

5. Even though the change it works in her is permanent, how does Teresa say she can describe the contact with the Beloved?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the metaphor of the ember in preparing one for marriage to God.

2. What tokens does Teresa say God gives to help recall the raptures?

3. What is a recommendation of Teresa's on meditation?

4. What recommendation does Teresa make regarding commands that will affect others?

5. What is the experience in the rapture that requires bravery?

6. What does Teresa say about remaining humble in light of the temporary nature of the world?

7. How has joy given Teresa a kind of death?

8. At this Seventh Dwelling stage, how are Teresa's experiences with god different?

9. Describe the esoteric talisman Teresa uses as an analogy to one's faith.

10. How does Teresa explain the anguish and unrest of the soul in the Sixth Dwelling?

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