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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 is the second important distinction that Augustine makes in Book One?
(a) The distinction between Christian love and pagan love.
(b) The distinction between encouraging and exhortation.
(c) The distinction between things and signs.
(d) The distinction between enjoy and use.

2. What does Augustine recommend to avoid the negative influences on individual thought?
(a) Regular participation in church activities.
(b) Paying careful attention to rules for Scriptural learning.
(c) Devoting regular time in prayer to become sensitive to Divine guidance.
(d) Isolating from temptations.

3. How does Augustine characterize the argument that his teaching is not needed because it comes from a human source?
(a) It is being heretical.
(b) It is being logically inconsistent.
(c) It is intolerant.
(d) It is responsible for allowing "babes in the Faith being devoured by the wolves of the world."

4. What basic fact do the critics discussed in the Preface ignore by discounting teaching from Augustine and others?
(a) Many writers have intensely studied Scriptures and have left their impressions for their use.
(b) Trial and error application often give non-Christians the opportunity to "mock God."
(c) The works of writers closer to the time of the authors of Scripture are frequently incomplete, disjointed, and often unverifiable.
(d) The fact that they learned important tools, such as the alphabet, from other humans.

5. What is the subject that Augustine addresses in Book One and Book Two?
(a) Finding a place in a Scriptural community.
(b) Understanding how to convey Scripture.
(c) Understanding what one should learn from Scripture.
(d) Finding what to learn from Scripture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the third type of criticism that Augustine suggests "On Christian Doctrine" would face?

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

3. Upon what does Augustine focus most of his efforts in the Preface of "On Christian Doctrine"?

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

5. Augustine endeavors to answer many questions about what subject in Book One?

Short Essay Questions

1. What tool does Augustine write that a pastor can use to help make Scripture understandable?

2. About what subject does Augustine want to answer many questions in Book One and for what two reasons does he want to answer them?

3. What does Augustine claim are the two types of signs and how are they defined?

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

5. What does Augustine focus on in Book Four?

6. According to Augustine, for whom are written commands in Scripture intended?

7. What does Augustine claim an interpreter must consider regarding the author of Scripture to make a correct interpretation?

8. What is the illustration Augustine uses to show the difference between things "enjoyed" and things "used"?

9. Augustine supports students learning in a certain human gathering. What are these human gatherings called and what can students get from them that they cannot get from "special gifts"?

10. What is Augustine's focus in Book One?

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