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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Three.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Augustine conclude are the only things that can be enjoyed?
(a) Only things that reveal Truth can be enjoyed.
(b) Only things that are used with special gifts to prove Truth can be enjoyed.
(c) Only eternal and unchangeable things can be enjoyed.
(d) Only wisdom and Truth can be enjoyed.

3. What is an important distinction that Augustine teaches students to understand through three Books of "On Christian Doctrine?
(a) The difference between "special gifts" and talents.
(b) The difference between sins of omission and original sin.
(c) The difference between original sin and human nature.
(d) The difference between "things" and "signs."

4. Augustine endeavors to answer many questions about what subject in Book One?
(a) The Christian conception of love.
(b) The doctrine of Scriptural infallibility.
(c) The doctrine of God's omnipotence.
(d) The Christian conception of Christ's deity.

5. How does Augustine describe humans?
(a) Humans are things that can "enjoy," love and "use" things.
(b) Humans are things that use language as a symbol.
(c) Humans are above things because they use them.
(d) Humans are things that are subject to the laws of God.

Short Answer Questions

1. Since Augustine regards his disciples as "divinely instituted," what responsibility falls on his students?

2. To what does Augustine compare his distinction of things?

3. What does Augustine identify as the relationship between all other things and the object of ultimate worship?

4. According to Augustine, of the different forms through which the grammar types show themselves, which is, by definition, the most difficult to interpret?

5. What other subject does Augustine addresses in Book Three and Book Four?

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