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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the topic of Book Three?
(a) Augustine differentiates between signs given by God and signs give by angels.
(b) Augustine details the difference of signs given to groups and signs given to individuals.
(c) Augustine tackles the problem of understanding signs that are ambiguous.
(d) Augustine addresses the controversy of the human filter inhibiting the interpretation of Scripture.

2. What does Augustine consider as God's typical means of delivering His illumination?
(a) Using nature to deliver His illumination.
(b) Using humans to deliver His illumination.
(c) Using adversity to deliver His illumination.
(d) Using the"still quiet moments" to deliver His illumination.

3. What is an important omission that Augustine commits as it applies to moral rules in Scripture?
(a) Augustine omits standards for interpreting Scripture.
(b) Augustine omits grammatical techniques for interpreting Scripture.
(c) Augustine does not guide students to understand whether the moral rules of Scripture are universal or particular.
(d) Augustine omits examples of grammatical forms from Scripture.

4. Of Tyconius' rules for interpreting Scripture that Augustine examined, which two relate to the subjects that Augustine recommended for study in Book Two?
(a) On species and genus and On measurements of time.
(b) On the Lord and his body and On the promises and the law.
(c) On the promises and the law and On the devil and his body.
(d) On the Lord's twofold body and On genus and species.

5. What is the primary tool for interpretation for the critics that Augustine primarily focuses on in the Preface?
(a) Intense study of Scripture.
(b) Investigating commentaries produced closer to the time of the authors of Scriptures.
(c) Trial and error application to the situations for which they need Scriptural guidance.
(d) A "special gift" from God.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Augustine state a student should consider an evil command given to its intended target?

2. Whose sermons does Augustine investigate to give illustrations of the application of the rules of delivering sermons?

3. What does Augustine resist teaching in Book Four?

4. Of the areas that Augustine emphasizes, what area receives the most intense focus?

5. According to Augustine, of the different forms through which the grammar types show themselves, which is, by definition, the most difficult to interpret?

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