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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 Augustine use to illustrate a thing to be enjoyed?
(a) The gathering of friends who come to share a delicious meal.
(b) The pot for cooking a delicious meal.
(c) A delicious meal.
(d) The special gift that enables one to cook a delicious meal.

2. Of these influences on personal thought, which does Augustine claim Scripture teaches can lead a Christian to positive patterns?
(a) That God always calls His chosen people to work productively.
(b) That Priests are a model of what St. Paul inferred in Hebrews was the "Priesthood of Believers," and are therefore a legitimate source of guidance.
(c) That God uses angels to direct men to human communities to learn.
(d) That "leaving and cleaving" that forms marriage is a reflection of God's character.

3. According to Augustine, how should a student be affected as he/she becomes proficient in interpreting Scripture?
(a) He/she will help to apply the principles of community.
(b) He/she will help develop a student's teaching skill.
(c) He/she will increase the love that one feels.
(d) He/she will help in developing an understanding of God's motivations.

4. What doctrine does Augustine introduce to explain how Truth can be seen?
(a) The doctrine of "community vision" is achieved when individuals join their desires to seek eternal truths illuminated by God.
(b) The doctrine of "special gifts of seeing" that God grants when individuals seek eternal truths illuminated by God.
(c) The doctrine of "things and signs" helps an individual know which things and signs illuminate eternal truths.
(d) The doctrine of the "inner eye" that can see eternal truths even when tainted by sin because it is illuminated by God.

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 will either understand Scripture or believe they do.
(b) That these types of critics are a threat to the true Church.
(c) That these types of critics, if they gather a following around their criticism, are dangerously close to practicing heresy.
(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 does Augustine conclude are the only things that can be enjoyed?

2. What is Augustine's perception of God's dispensation of "special gifts" of interpreting Scripture?

3. What does Augustine use to illustrate a thing to be used?

4. What items or situations does Augustine use to illustrate his distinction of things?

5. What was the first type of criticism Augustine suggests his work "On Christian Doctrine" would face?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Augustine claim is one of the causes of a sign's ambiguity?

2. What are the seven rules of interpretation that Augustine used from Tyconius' book of Rules?

3. Why does Augustine suggest that the critics he focuses on in the Preface do not believe his teaching is necessary?

4. What does Augustine recommend should be the lifestyle and focus of the Christian speaker?

5. What inference can be made from the extensive training that Augustine recommends to interpret Scripture?

6. To what sect of Christianity did Tyconius belong and and why is it ironic that Augustine references his rules of interpretation?

7. Why does Augustine believe that God will aid him in his teaching about learning and communicating Scripture?

8. What are the two items that Augustine writes that students must differentiate to learn what Scripture teaches?

9. What three virtues do students need to teach Scripture?

10. What does Augustine identify as an important consideration when determining how many ideas words or phrases from Scripture contain?

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