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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. Why does Augustine expect the method of accessing knowledge he lacks to be successful?
(a) Augustine believes God guides those who gather in Christian community.
(b) Augustine believes that God will give to him because God gives to those who "give away," as does Augustine when he teaches.
(c) Augustine is familiar with the classification system of the library at Hippo Regius.
(d) Augustine has great respect for other learned Priests within his sphere.
2. What was the third type of criticism that Augustine suggests "On Christian Doctrine" would face?
(a) Criticism from those who cannot grasp his teaching.
(b) Criticism that his demands for linguistic studies were too exclusive.
(c) Criticism from those who believe it is not needed.
(d) Criticism from those who claim that Augustine relied too much on training and not enough on divine guidance.
3. What is the second important distinction that Augustine makes in Book One?
(a) The distinction between things and signs.
(b) The distinction between enjoy and use.
(c) The distinction between Christian love and pagan love.
(d) The distinction between encouraging and exhortation.
4. Augustine wrote that the critics he mainly focuses on in the Preface base their positions on what belief?
(a) A misapplication of Scripture.
(b) Fear of losing their influence.
(c) Resistance to accept new ideas.
(d) That they already understand Scripture.
5. What is Augustine's perception of God's dispensation of "special gifts" of interpreting Scripture?
(a) That they follow miraculous events.
(b) Dispensing of such gifts is atypical.
(c) That they precede periods of peace and prosperity.
(d) That they follow periods of oppression of those seeking His blessings.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to Augustine, how should a student be affected as he/she becomes proficient in interpreting Scripture?
2. What Scriptural defense does Augustine use for encouraging critics to consider the validity of "On Christian Doctrine"?
3. What are the two main tools that God uses to teach men what to do, as identified by Augustine?
4. How does Augustine describe humans?
5. How does Augustine expect to get the knowledge that he lacks?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is a technique that Augustine uses to determine the meaning of a passage that cannot be discovered by simply reading the passage?
2. What are the two subject matters into which Augustine divides the four books in "Of Christian Doctrine"?
3. What three virtues do students need to teach Scripture?
4. What does Augustine recommend as the best method for acquiring rhetorical skill?
5. What are the first two points that Augustine uses to begin his refutation of the critics he focuses upon in the Preface?
6. What is a point that Augustine makes about the love of God that confronts his critics that claim "special gifts" needed to interpret scripture?
7. What is Augustine's focus in Book One?
8. What does Augustine recommend to orators who use speech writers?
9. What are three things that Augustine writes that humans can do with one of the items of his focus in Book One?
10. To what sect of Christianity did Tyconius belong and and why is it ironic that Augustine references his rules of interpretation?
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