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Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Four.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What other subject does Augustine addresses in Book Three and Book Four?
(a) Teaching the doctrines of Scripture.
(b) Understanding how to convey what one learned from Scripture.
(c) Understanding how to learn from Scripture.
(d) Understanding how scripture develops community.
2. How are things separated by Augustine?
(a) Categories of things under God's authority and things that are sinful.
(b) Categories of things that are things and things that are signs.
(c) Categories of things that are enjoyed and things that are used.
(d) Categories of things that are Biblical and things that are non-Biblical.
3. What is the doctrine that Augustine claims critics of human teaching defend?
(a) That God will communicate through the in dwelling of the Holy Spirit.
(b) That God will communicate the meaning of Scripture through "special gifts."
(c) That God will communicate through tongues.
(d) That God will communicate through signs and symbols.
4. What is the second important distinction that Augustine makes in Book One?
(a) The distinction between encouraging and exhortation.
(b) The distinction between enjoy and use.
(c) The distinction between things and signs.
(d) The distinction between Christian love and pagan love.
5. When Augustine focuses on one of the types of criticism he expects to receive, what does he suggest to the reader?
(a) That these types of critics, if they gather a following around their criticism, are dangerously close to practicing heresy.
(b) That these types of critics will either understand Scripture or believe they do.
(c) That these types of critics are a threat to the true Church.
(d) That these types of critics are stagnant in their thoughts and threaten to limit the influence of Divine guidance.
Short Answer Questions
1. What comes of loving oneself for reasons other than that which Augustine specified?
2. What important understanding must the student of scripture possess, as stated in Book Two?
3. How can recommendations Augustine makes from Book Three prevent students from falling into the trap that misleads them?
4. Books One, Two, and Three focused on interpreting Scripture. Upon what did Augustine focus for Book Four?
5. What does Augustine claim to be the central law of love and the message of Christianity?
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