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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Application.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is a key point that Edwards makes as he argues the seventh point in the Doctrine section of the sermon?
(a) God despises sinners.
(b) The justice of heaven is applied to all people alike.
(c) The devil is always waiting for humans to make mistakes.
(d) God has a huge number of ways of killing a person without warning.

2. In the Application section of his sermon, what logical reason does Edwards give for fearing God more than a human killer?
(a) A human can only kill the body.
(b) Those who are murdered by other humans do not go to hell.
(c) God can torture a sinner.
(d) God hates living sinners.

3. In the Application section of his sermon, what argument does Edwards offer to those who are unconvinced by his sermon?
(a) There are many people in hell who were also unconvinced.
(b) It costs them nothing to believe him and be wrong, but costs them everything to disbelieve and be wrong.
(c) Christ's love will convince them if Edwards' words do not.
(d) They can read the truth of what he is saying in the Bible.

4. To what does Edwards compare earthly potentates in the Application section of his essay?
(a) Spiders and fire.
(b) Worms and grasshoppers.
(c) Comets and stars.
(d) Lions and flood water.

5. What is the fourth characteristic of the wrath that awaits sinners that Edwards reminds his congregants about in the Application section of his sermon?
(a) It is blind.
(b) It is just.
(c) It is vengeful.
(d) It is eternal.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Doctrine section of his sermon, Edwards connects the idea of the "poisoned fruit" to what people?

2. When, in the Application section of his sermon, Edwards warns sinners that there is "nothing to lay hold of to save yourself, nothing to keep off the flames of wrath, nothing of your own, nothing that you ever have done, nothing that you can do, to induce God to spare you one moment" (413), he is using which literary technique?

3. What does Edwards say, at the beginning of the Application section of his sermon, is the overall purpose of the sermon?

4. What is Edwards' tenth argument for the truth of his statement of doctrine?

5. When, in the Application section of his sermon, Edwards tells congregants that "There are the black clouds of God's wrath now hanging directly over your heads, full of the dreadful storm," (411), what literary technique is he employing?

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