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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Three.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Augustine claim that words as signs are difficult to understand?
(a) Because God inspires believers to master tongues and interpret signs.
(b) Because God created with words and wants believers to know their impact.
(c) Because words as signs are only understood within a scriptural context.
(d) Because God provides Scriptural complexity to satisfy a hard-working mind.

2. Who does Augustine suggest has the ability to know the Truth?
(a) Illuminated minds.
(b) All minds.
(c) All minds joined in community.
(d) Minds God endowed with special gifts.

3. What Scriptural passage does Augustine use to remind the reader of "On Christian Doctrine" of the condition that affects holy men?
(a) "'I am the Alpha and the Omega,' says the Lord God, 'who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.'"
(b) "Yet the Lord warned Israel and Judah, through all his prophets and every seer, saying, 'Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments, My statutes according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through my servants the prophets.'"
(c) "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
(d) "And we preach to you the good news of the promise made to the fathers, that God has fulfilled this promise to our children that He raised up Jesus."

4. What does Augustine state the student must do once the figurative and literal passages have been separated from each other?
(a) The background of the passages needs to be compared.
(b) A second division needs to be made separating Old Testament from New Testament.
(c) The meanings must be harmonized.
(d) The language and grammar must be checked for accuracy and similarities.

5. Based on the academic demands that Augustine places on his students, it is clear that Augustine believes what?
(a) That those who sought Augustine as a teacher will need to have conviction and determination to take on the challenges he puts before his students.
(b) That God is the master of all creation and language and the more you know of each the better you understand what God passed on in Scripture.
(c) That learning as much as possible is the best way to separate the individual from the common population.
(d) That personal discipline and focusing on things outside of the body helps build chastity and humility.

Short Answer Questions

1. What should be the nature of the relationship between humans and God according to Augustine?

2. What does Augustine call the types of grammar used through Scripture?

3. What important understanding must the student of scripture possess, as stated in Book Two?

4. What hazard does Augustine state must one keep in check as they learn of the fields pertaining to Scripture?

5. What does Augustine claim to be the central law of love and the message of Christianity?

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